Ford ‘government continues to starve the public system while expanding the costly private for-profit system,’ says Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas
BarrieToday.com
Village Media
Aug 6, 2026 12:00 PM
Pointing to a report released last week by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas is calling on the provincial government to stop nickel-and-diming Ontario’s health-care system.
Released July 31, Pushed over the brink: The escalating assault on Ontario’s hospitals uses the latest provincial data, OCHU said, to highlight “the dire conditions that hospitals are facing in the wake of Ford’s austerity agenda.”
OCHU said evidence of that agenda can be seen in the “massive drop” in working capital hospitals use to cover daily expenses, like medical supplies and payroll.
“This figure has plummeted from $2 billion in 2020, to negative $280 million at the end of last year,” OCHU stated. “As a result, many hospitals have been forced to borrow cash to make ends meet.”
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