NDP Leader Holds Discussion on Long-Term Care Crisis – February 11, 2021
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh hosts a virtual discussion on the long-term care crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. He is joined by NDP MPs Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) and Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood-Transcona), as well as Brianne Goertzen, provincial director of the Manitoba Health Coalition, and Larry Baillie, whose father died at the Maples Personal Care Home in Winnipeg. That facility was the site of a deadly COVID-19 outbreak that was declared on October 20, 2020. There were 56 deaths linked to the outbreak, and 157 residents and 74 staff members tested positive. (no interpretation)