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:

“Communities, families and businesses across Ontario deserve to have clarity on how decisions will be made to safely re-open the economy.

The province’s local Medical Officers of Health have done an outstanding job to protect their communities during this pandemic. We fully support the local Medical Officers of Health as they lay out concrete benchmarks and provide the leadership the public expects as we gradually move ahead with safely re-opening the province.

We urge Doug Ford and the provincial government to work with the local Medical Officers of Health to adopt this set of clear metrics.”