Doug Ford\u2019s government has apparently confirmed that a previously\u00a0promised $2.1 billion investment into mental health care over four years will be scrapped, and replaced with a Conservative plan that will spend $1.9 billion over 10 years. The deep cut will result in mental health funding dropping to $190 million per year from $525 million per year \u2013 a $330 million per year slash to mental health and addictions services.<\/p>\n
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Official Opposition\u00a0Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement on Doug Ford\u2019s cut to mental health funding:<\/p>\n
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\u201cDoug Ford\u2019s decision to deeply cut mental health funding is devastating to thousands of children already waiting a painful 18 months for care. It\u2019s painful for the thousands of adults that need counselling, mental health and addictions support and crisis intervention. And it is certain to hurt all of Ontario, because, as a province, together we face the consequences of failing to provide health care for individuals struggling with a mental health challenge or crisis.<\/p>\n
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Doug Ford is now coming after Ontario\u2019s health care with his cutting-and-privatizing agenda. Ontario\u2019s NDP stands in unwavering opposition to cuts to health care, including mental health care, and will fight Ford every step of the way when it comes to cuts or privatization in health care.<\/p>\n
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The NDP and I believe it\u2019s critical that Ontario invests now in increased mental health services throughout the province, from supportive housing to mental health and addictions counselling, and much more access for children and youth struggling or in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doug Ford\u2019s government has apparently confirmed that a previously\u00a0promised $2.1 billion investment into mental health care over four years will be scrapped, and replaced with a Conservative plan that will spend $1.9 billion over 10 years. The deep cut will result in mental health funding dropping to $190 million per year from $525 million per …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,38],"tags":[1614],"class_list":["post-14539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-provincial","tag-ontario-mental-health"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:27:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14540,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions\/14540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}