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Horwath calls on Doug Ford to adopt medical officers map forward
QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement following a Toronto Star report that local Medical Officers of Health have coordinated to create a detailed metric to plan the path forwards, including important benchmarks, for re-opening:
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Ford must stop concealing list of 19 “red” high-risk long-term care homes
QUEEN’S PARK — Premier Doug Ford today confirmed he has a list of 19 “red” long-term care homes in dire straits, but refuses to release that list of homes so that families and residents know where the worst problems are. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement, demanding that list be made...
Ford must deploy extra resources to COVID-19 hot spots now: Horwath
QUEEN’S PARK - Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, issued the following statement calling on Doug Ford to immediately deploy additional resources and support to communities identified as COVID-19 hotspots in a map released by the City of Toronto:
“I’m calling...
Horwath: Seniors, families and health care workers should have been heard all along
Beating COVID-19, fixing long-term care starts with an independent public inquiry that actually listens
QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath joined the families of long-term care residents Thursday via video conference to discuss how the deadly impact of COVID-19 on long-term care was, sadly,...
Ford attempts to quietly sneak through bill to make it easier for landlords to evict tenants
QUEEN’S PARK — Suze Morrison, Ontario NDP Tenant Rights critic, said it’s simply wrong for Doug Ford to capitalize on a pandemic to quietly ram through legislation that will make it easier for landlords to evict tenants.
Bill 184, Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act, which passed...
Response from NDP Leader on Canadian Armed Forces report on Ontario LTC homes
“The conditions and treatment of seniors revealed in this report are outrageous, horrifying and saddening. The horror seniors in these homes are being forced to live is inhumane. It breaks my heart to think about what these people are living through even today, and how scared and outraged their families must be...
Ford government must take over all unsafe long-term care facilities, Horwath says
QUEEN’S PARK — Doug Ford and his government need to act immediately and take over the many long-term care facilities across the province that are failing to ensure the health and safety of seniors and staff, said Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in a press conference with family members of seniors in...
Horwath calls for takeover of many more than two care homes
QUEEN’S PARK — Weeks late, the government has stepped in to take over two private for-profit long-term care facilities that are failing to protect their residents against COVID-19 — but NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says many more need to come under the direct management of the province.
“For weeks, we have...
Promised pandemic pay needs to flow now: NDP
QUEEN'S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement in response to a letter from 11 health care CEOs to Premier Doug Ford asking for the province to release the pandemic pay bump it promised a month ago:
"Workers on the front lines of the COVID-19...
NDP says limiting testing to assessment centres won’t improve results enough
QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP’s Andrea Horwath says that after over a week of very low testing, it’s clear Doug Ford’s strategy of limiting testing to assessment centres just isn’t working.
“Limiting testing to just the assessment centres is an ongoing mistake,” said Horwath. “We need a new plan to...
NDP to force vote on emergency funding for municipalities
Municipalities in dire financial straits as a result of COVID-19
QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Municipal Affairs critic Jeff Burch will table a motion this week that would give emergency financial support to municipalities that have been deeply impacted by COVID-19.
“Cities and towns throughout the province...
Ford must take responsibility for, and action on, COVID-19 testing failures
NDP is pushing for mass testing of asymptomatic people outside assessment centres
QUEEN’S PARK — On Sunday, Doug Ford once again failed to take responsibility for a week of abysmally low COVID-19 testing numbers, and didn’t take action to put a new plan in place to fix the province’s recklessly...
