Ending for-profit long-term care is on the mind of the federal NDP leader.
In Mississauga, Ontario on Tuesday, Jagmeet Singh said his party would work with provinces and territories to ensure long-term care is publicly delivered.
Singh said at the height of the pandemic, people living in for-profit facilities experienced higher infection rates and deaths compared to those in non-profit and public facilities.
“It can’t be that our seniors and our loved ones bear the brunt of this pandemic and then we forget about it,” Singh said.
Singh said “what we have seen has been horrible and we can’t accept it”.
“Right now as it stands, when we fund long-term care some of that money is going into the pockets of shareholders. That is wrong. Canadians don’t want our public money going to make people richer. It should be going to protect and care for our loved ones,” Singh said.
Singh said the Conservatives and Liberals are satisfied with the private delivery of care, the NDP are not and will defend seniors who deserve dignity in their last years of life.
