Doug Ford

Until the provincial election last June 2, then-NDP leader Andrea Horwath was a major thorn in the side of Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives.

I’m very confident the mayor and I are going have a great relationship — no matter if it comes to infrastructure or building homes or attracting great businesses like Bimbo. I just look forward to a collaborative relationship with Mayor Horwath and the other mayors.” “Thank you so much for the investment, premier. “It’s great to be here in the Hammer. Thank you for being here, ministers. I love the people here,” said Ford, praising Horwath as “the great mayor of Hamilton.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford answers questions following a press conference at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy in Etobicoke, Ont., on Wednesday, January 11, ...

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Ford will be joined by Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Vic Fedeli. The premier is expected to deliver comments and then take questions ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to hold a news conference this morning in Hamilton. The news conference is set to get underway at 10 a.m. Ontario Premier Doug Ford to hold a news conference

Hospitals will lose staff and waits for urgent care will grow longer if Premier Doug Ford opens privately operated independent surgical centres to help ...

we need to look to other provinces and countries to see what they’re doing differently and for the best ideas.”](https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/01/11/doug-ford-says-ontario-will-accept-trudeau-governments-conditions-for-new-health-care-funding.html) “People don’t care where they have to go as long as it has the same regulations, same top-notch doctors that are working in the hospital,” Ford said, citing knee replacements, hip replacements and cataract operations as possibilities, and mentioning the privately owned Shouldice Hospital for hernias as an example of a model. [“we need to be bold, we need to be innovative … “As the government expands the role of community-based clinics to further shorten wait times for Ontarians, specific measures will be in place to protect staffing and stability in hospitals.” “Many months ago, we were consulted and shared our opinion that stand-alone surgical centres need to be connected to the hospital system to ensure continuity of care and patient safety,” Whitmore said in a statement Thursday. The shot across the bow from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario came a day after Ford said “we need to have facilities like that to take the burden off the hospitals.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to a question from a reporter following a press conference at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy ...

In Britain, France, Germany, and Australia there are similar independent health facilities many of them run by the private sector and the system has not collapsed. If we can use all of those services, which are private, then why does it matter who runs the clinic where my cataract or knee surgery is performed? It’s puzzling that this is the reaction to Ford’s plans considering that our system is and always has been a hybrid of public, private and not-for-profit. Fraser, along with doctor and fellow MPP Adil Shamji, were big on fear mongering, light on details as they denounced Ford’s plan as privatization. The idea is to move these simple surgeries out of hospital settings starting with cataracts and then moving on to hip, knee and other procedures. Before Doug Ford has even made his announcement about changing the health care system, the opposition is already saying no.