The storyline about Ontario health care is almost universally negative at the moment. Pretty much every day brings fresh news stories of nursing shortages, cancelled surgeries and emergency room overloading, even closures. The public is repeatedly told by medical people that the health-care system is either “broken” or “collapsing.”
One might have thought that the Ontario government would want to reassure people, given that health care is its most important and most expensive service.
And yet, the silence is deafening. It’s just not a good time, you see. The provincial cabinet lost a lot of health-care knowledge when long-time minister Christine Elliott decided not to run again. Sylvia Jones, who had been solicitor general, was made health minister, as well as deputy premier, in Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet. It was a bit of a surprise. Jones’s prior experience in health care consists of leading the vaccine-distribution task force during the pandemic.
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