Article content Ontario’s Long-term Care COVID-19 Commission has exposed the staggering failure of the provincial government to protect seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing in the report should really come as a big surprise. Over the years, numerous studies, media investigations, caregiver accounts and home inspection reports have revealed severe failings in long-term care, and most of what the commission laid out, in excruciating detail, was already well documented. But successive Ontario governments just didn’t care enough to take any action. These were frail people in the waning moments of their lives and governments simply parked them in homes and turned a blind eye to their suffering. Out of sight, out of mind.