Study suggests size determines how COVID-19 affects Ontario retirement homes Both leaders have essentially told the federal government to just hand over more money with no strings attached and then keep its nose out of health care delivery in their provinces.Technically, both premiers are right: health care is a provincial responsibility.The problem is, neither province is doing a good job on the long-term care file.Here in Ontario, the overwhelming number of COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term care facilities, and this pandemic has exposed a frighteningly long list of serious problems, from staffing to living conditions.