Ontario legislature returns to approve 2022 budget amid healthcare staffing crisis, high inflation onpoli
Members will return Monday to vote for a Speaker, followed on Tuesday by the throne speech, which outlines a government's new agenda, and the budget, which is expected to be largely unchanged from when it wasThe premier is expected to acknowledge the health-care and economic pressures, but it's unclear if any new measures will be added to the budget or throne speech to deal with them.
Since the June election, a nursing staff shortage has led hospitals to close emergency departments in communities across the province for hours or even days at a time. Opposition critics and nursing groups say the nursing college directive does not amount to the province doing everything in its power to address the situation, as Ford recently promised.
Interim NDP leader Peter Tabuns said Bill 124 is a symbol of the Ford government's attitude toward health-care workers. The Liberals will technically sit as independents again, as they failed to regain enough seats for official party status in the legislature, but interim leader John Fraser said their priorities will be the health system as well as affordability, including disability support payment rates.Ford promised during the election campaign that he would increase those disability support payments by five per cent, which is the only new measure that he has indicated will be in the reintroduced budget.
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