The new wave of increased privatization appears to be upon us in Ontario. This seems to be happening in both medicine and education.
They have been limiting funding for healthcare (even not spending dollars from the federal government) and service has been suffering as a result. Understaffing of nurses has been the most talked about, but there have been other ramifications such as closing ERs, no ambulances available, etc.
So far, the Ford government approach has been
- contact to private business for nursing, at 2x-3x the cost
- refuse to rule out additional private healthcare
- limit funding for private education, but offer $225m for Parents (approx $100/student) for catch-up via tutoring
Even Mother Nature seems to be against Ford: swallowed a bee:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1558118860502474756