The Ontario Health Coalition is expressing its concerns over the provincial government’s plans for Ontario’s health care system.
“We did about 20 press conferences leading up to the drop of the writ all over the province where we invited experts to talk about the state of Ontario health care and the reasons for its shortcomings. The primary reason for the shortcomings is that Ontario underfunds its health care by many billions of dollars per year on a per capita basis compared to the spending in other Canadian provinces.”
“Asking nurses to accept a one per cent wage increase when inflation is running around eight per cent is asking people to work for a pay cut of seven per cent so why should we be doing that to people who worked as hard as they did during the pandemic?” Dupuis said. Dupuis said the government may send such patients to LTC homes that have poor track records in caregiving.Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra has stated that the government does not wish to force patients but to enable them to have "conversations" in which patients are told that they would be better off if they were moved to long term care homes. “They have always been able to have conversations with patients and indeed coercive tactics have been a major problem.