If you live in Ontario, you need to pay attention to premier Doug Ford. If you don’t, he and his conservatives could bankrupt us. He has totally screwed our healthcare system. He is stealing from us with his planned Highway 413 for his developer friends. He is heading for a collision with our teachers. Remember, he is just a salesman. He hopes to leave the suckers laughing.
I don’t think we have ever seen a man so delighted with his job. He got his money the old-fashioned way, he inherited it. He was taught about politics by his younger brother when Rob Ford was mayor of Toronto with a habit of crack cocaine for fun. When Doug ran for Toronto mayor, he lost to the more conservative John Tory.
But that did not keep Doug Ford from getting even. One of the first things he did when he got to Queen’s Park was to block the increase in the number of councillors for a city of 2.8 million. He left the limited number of councillors with an impossible job. More recently, he decided to have a super-mayor for our two largest cities. He and John Tory must have kissed and made up. The super mayor idea is American and works for them because they have party politics at the municipal level in most of the cities. Toronto has disguised party politics without party discipline.
But Ford’s nemesis will be healthcare. He is attempting to ‘innovate’ with privatization. And it can’t be done. Privatization would cause a further, serious, drain of medical staff from our hospitals. These facilities are already understaffed. Beds are unoccupied in wards with no nurses. There are surgical facilities in hospitals that are not being used. Building new private facilities would be charged to public dollars. Staffing the private facilities would be a further drain on our hospitals. And then public money would be used to pay millionaire doctors.
And the very idea of dumping the feeble from hospitals on for profit nursing homes is the most egregious plan of all. These facilities have neither the staff to handle this influx nor the physio-therapy facilities to help them. To increase private facilities profits in this manner can only be described as abuse of the sick and hurrying them off to what can be a lonely and dreary death.
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