People on social assistance are starving. Food bank usage is at an all time high. Families are struggling, kids are going to school hungry. Mental health wait times are too long.
This premier shut down the legislature for 15 weeks while sitting on 22B of unallocated $. #onpoli
The Ford PC gov's Bill 60 is about allowing private investors & shareholders to make millions off healthcare while the Conservatives purposely starve our public not-for-profit healthcare system to try to justify it. It's not about YOUR HEALTH, it's about THEIR WEALTH. #onpoli
CUTS to #Healthcare under @fordnation: 2018 $97 mill for hospital beds, 2019: $1 Billion to TorPublicHealth and cut $330 million for Mental Health. During a PANDEMIC!!
@AmitAryaMD Totally unacceptable and there is absolutely no way everyone of those 30+ are getting all the care they need. Ask yourself how long it would take you to bathe, dress, feed, toilet, take for a walk, 10 people! Doing it the way you would want someone to do for you or your parents?
@jessicatrosen@penguinsrequiem@NaheedD Do you work in the community? Do you provide outreach and crisis supports to those out in the streets? These are the areas where funding is needed most, not clinics and hospitals.
@WakeUpRef@JoshMatlow They would support the person to take their medication and provide them counseling..help them find housing and work..help them to use less substances..give them someone to talk to and things to do… all preventing unwell people from being agitated in the TTC.
@HORNACEJACKSON@NaheedD Yes and no.. there are so many seriously unwell people waiting for mental health services that could be helped right away with increased funding to community mental health and addiction services. Also many people who would not be in the TTC if they had housing.
@NaheedD Anyone working in mental health services can tell you that they were already underfunded and struggling to keep up with demand before the pandemic… since the pandemic the need for mental health services has only increased…along with wait times.
@NoMoreBooks@theJagmeetSingh It’s going to get much worse too with developers pocketing their fees instead of them being used for municipal services and programs, Ontario is going down fast. Hopefully more people show up to vote the next election.
@Alexhaditaghi @theJagmeetSingh@JustinTrudeau No that argument is false and raising interest rates has done nothing to stop price gouging at the grocery stores