Ford forced the majority of our hospitals into deficit & is threatening takeover if they don’t make cuts. At the same time, his gov't is shifting $1 billion & more than 1 million patients to private clinics. They’re privatizing our hospitals unless we stop them. 🧵👇
#onpoli
Our new legal opinion says the federal gov’t has already clearly spoken on what the AB government is doing w/ Bill 11. The answer is no to the queue jumping the UCP is putting in place. (That’s what the Cambie case was about.) The Minister of Health needs to apply the Canada Health Act. #cdnpoli
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When you sit in the ER waiting room chairs to see and reassess patients because there is no other place in the ER due to overcrowding, Ontario I’m telling you we have a serious problem.
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Alberta has passed Bill 11, allowing doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics while working in the public system. This is American-style health care, and if Alberta succeeds, other provinces will follow.
I just sent a letter. Join me: https://t.co/jxXI9XiUwF
In 1984, the Canadian Labour Congress established April 28th as the National Day of Mourning in Canada to remember and honour those who have died, been injured or suffered illness in the workplace.
Fort Erie's Ceremony was held yesterday. https://t.co/7vBIbPRbRW
“Change is always hard.” Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones, while hospitals across the province fire hundreds of nurses and patients wait 20 hours in emergency rooms. This isn’t change. This is a choice. And Ontarians deserve to know exactly who is making it. Over 70% of
My frail, 82-yr-old patient spent 2 nights on a gurney in an ER
I've been told to “build a wall” between the suffering of my patients & me
...but not how to handle governments failing to hold up their end of the bargain
@FordNation
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This year, I asked my community about their priorities for Queen's Park.
People aren't asking for a private jet for the Premier, police horses at Ontario Place, or a tunnel under the 401.
61% of respondents ranked healthcare as their top concern. Get with the program, @fordnation.
You know a $30 million plane wasn't needed when Ontario ERs are opening more hallway beds, that's not enough and ER doctors continue to see the new patients on paramedic stretchers.