In the 2021 Global Drug Survey, 10 per cent of all respondents, and 15 per cent of Canadian respondents, indicated having used the drug in the previous year.
Even as hospitals across Ontario were overwhelmed by patients during the pandemic, the system’s managers were reportedly busy looking for “cost-savings.” While the crisis has been used by Ontario’s right-wing government to further privatize the system, there is further evidence that the health system’s public sector managers have spent years wrecking it from inside.