🧵There are whispers on twitter that Kirill Kalinin, expelled Russian Diplomat( accused of being a Russian operative) is Pierre Poilievre's "handler". A PressProgress article from 2022 makes this a chilling prospect if true. Excerpts in the thread: In 2018, Kalinin along with 3 other Russian diplomats were expelled from Canada. In 2022, PressProgress reported that "leaked emails show that Russian officials sought help of Ontario PC insiders in an effort to flow Russian money into Ontario amid US sanctions."

🧵I think every Ontarian should be aware of what the Auditor General of Ontario published in the 'Value for Money Audit/ Outpatient Surgeries' in 2021.
Before we allow Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones outsource any more surgeries to the private for-profit sector, we need answers. "Our audit concluded that the Ministry, in conjunction with Ontario Health, does not have fully effective oversight procedures and systems in place to monitor and confirm the quality of specifically outpatient surgeries."

🧵Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones want to open up the delivery of healthcare to the private (for profit) sector. One only has to look at data from Long term Care homes during Covid to see what happens when you open up healthcare for profit. There are 3 types of LTC homes. Private for-profit, Municipality owned homes and non-profit. Based on a comprehensive study which reviewed all the data, these are the chilling statistics. (Study source: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…