RE: Wants action from MPP, Aug. 4.
The Ontario government is doing little to deal with the crashing health care system. With one in three nurses planning on leaving the profession because of burn out and salary caps, and the limited number of spots in nursing programs to train new nurses, the remaining nurses are required to work overtime and ER services have to be closed because of insufficient personnel. The government was aware that this would happen, but failed to take preemptive action.
In 2021-22, Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) noted that the Ford government had spent $1.8 billion less on health care than they had planned. It seems they thought it was more important to brag about reducing the deficit than addressing the health care crisis!
The government claimed that some of the bills had not arrived when the FAO released the figures. What, maybe $1 million of the $1.8 billion hadn’t arrived yet?
Premier Ford says his government cares about the workers and the little guys. I don’t believe him.
Ron Moore,
Hillsburgh