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The government dramatically expanded funding for private surgical clinics while public hospital operating rooms sit empty due to staffing shortages.
Ontario faces a shortage of approximately 25,000 nurses, with emergency departments overwhelmed and over 2,000 patients daily waiting on stretchers.
Systemic failures in long-term care homes led to thousands of deaths during COVID-19, with promised reforms remaining largely unimplemented.
Conservative premiers blame federal health transfers for healthcare crisis while provincial policies like Bill 124 drove nurses out.
Former Health Minister Christine Elliott became a lobbyist for Clearpoint Health Network—whose Don Mills clinic received a 278% funding increase during her tenure—and now lobbies for more funding while the chain gets paid double what public hospitals receive for identical surgeries.
Shoppers Drug Mart billed Ontario $81 million for medication reviews over two years—more than the previous six years combined—while pharmacists reported corporate pressure to conduct unnecessary reviews and meet targets.