With Pandemic’s Second Wave Devastating Ontario Nursing Homes, C.A.R.P. Leads Campaign to Fire Long-Term Care Minister
C.A.R.P. feels that Ontario’s Long-Term Care Minister Dr. Merrilee Fullerton should be fired for failing to do enough to prevent the second wave of COVID-10 from devastating Ontario nursing homes. Photo: The Canadian Press/Chris Young Photo: The Canadian Press/Chris Young
In mid-May last year, when the Canadian Armed Forces issued a shocking report on the appalling conditions they found when they were called in to assist Ontario nursing homes overwhelmed by outbreaks and death, Premier Doug Ford vowed he would seek “justice and accountability” for residents and their families.
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BILL VANGORDER
Ontario is the only province in Canada with a Ministry of Long-Term Care. On paper, this sounds commendable.
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The deputy minister makes more than $200,000 a year, as does at least one assistant deputy minister. And numerous department heads make more than $150,000 annually.
But the performance, as we know, has been a disaster.
That is why for the first time in its 36-year history, our organization, C.A.R.P. (founded as The Canadian Association of Retired Persons), has publicly called for the firing of a cabinet minister, and named that politician: Merillee Fullerton, minister of long-term care.