Report documents Ontario government’s ruinous role in pandemic’s ravaging of long-term care homes
Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission submitted its final report to the province’s hard-right Progressive Conservative government at the end of last month. Its findings constitute a cogent condemnation of the failure of the Doug Ford-led Tory government to protect the province’s tens of thousands of elderly care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both Canada’s first and second waves of the pandemic Ontario’s chronically underfunded and profit-driven long-term care sector became the scene of mass infections and death.
A member of the Canadian Armed Forces working at a Quebec nursing home (Canadian Dept. of Defence)