During question period Tuesday, \u00a0NDP health critic France G\u00e9linas questioned Premier Doug Ford on his decision to award a million-dollar contract to the former president of the Ontario PC party.<\/p>\n
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Rueben Devlin will be paid $348,000 each year during his three year term \u2013 over $1 million in total \u2013 to provide advice on the health care system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last Liberal government pushed Ontario\u2019s hospitals to the brink. Hallway medicine and painfully long wait times have become the new normal inside our hospitals,\u201d said G\u00e9linas, MPP for Nickel Belt. \u201cBut instead of taking urgent steps to fix it, the premier handed a contract \u2013 worth over a million dollars \u2013 to one of his friends, the former president of the Conservative party. Why was Doug Ford\u2019s first act in health care an act of blatant political patronage?\u201d<\/p>\n
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G\u00e9linas said $1 million would be better spent hiring nurses and providing more front-line care \u2014 not on an advisor with a questionable record.\u00a0 In 2006, the hospitals run by Devlin had the second-worst death rate in Canada.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhile nurses warned of chronic understaffing at his hospitals, he shut down three Toronto hospitals sites and replaced them with just one P3 hospital,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cWhy did the premier hand a million-dollar-contract to his friend instead of investing in frontline health services?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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