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Ontario NDP calls on OPP to investigate deaths in long-term care settings
by News Staff
Last Updated May 6, 2021 at 11:59 am EDT
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Summary
Reports released last week both concluded the Ford government was slow in responding to COVID-19 in long-term care
Horwarth points to at least 26 seniors who died, not from COVID-19, but from a lack of water and personal care
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is asking provincial police to investigate if criminal charges are warranted in the wake of reports into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care settings.
A 322-page report released late last week by the independent Long-Term Care Commission, along with the Auditor General’s report released several days earlier, both concluded the Ford government was slow in responding to COVID-19 in long-term care settings while calling for sweeping reforms in a sector that had long been neglected by past and present governments.
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Published Wednesday, May 5, 2021 4:48PM EDT TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford defended his minister of long-term care on Wednesday, amid calls for her resignation after a scathing report found Ontario s nursing homes were neglected and unprepared for a pandemic. Ford told the legislature that he takes ultimate responsibility for the tragedies in long-term care and promised to fix the system. “The buck stops with me; that s who it stops with. It stops with me and I ll take responsibility,” Ford said during a debate on his first day back at Queen s Park after isolating from a COVID-19 exposure. He said he had “full confidence” in Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton, saying she “showed leadership” during the pandemic, which has killed 3,761 long-term care residents as of Wednesday.
She showed leadership : Ford defends Ontario LTC minister after scathing commission report
by The Canadian Press, Lucas Casaletto
Posted May 5, 2021 4:04 pm EDT
Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath, April 2021. 680 NEWS
TORONTO – Premier Doug Ford is defending his minister of long-term care amid calls for her resignation after a scathing report found Ontario’s nursing homes were neglected and unprepared for a pandemic.
Ford says he takes ultimate responsibility for the tragedies in long-term care and promised to fix the system.
NEW- Ford on the long-term care situation says “This will never happen again” “I’ll defend my minister all day long because the leader of the opposition wasn’t on the calls” pic.twitter.com/sMjo7ksW7Y