Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling for the resignation of the province’s long-term care minister after a report was released by the Canadian Armed Forces detailing disturbing allegations of horrific conditions inside five of the province’s long-term care homes.
Horwath said Merrilee Fullerton must immediately resign and the province must take steps to ensure more residents in care homes don’t reside under similar conditions. “In over 20 years of political service, I have never been so outraged, so disgusted, so saddened and so horrified by what I learned today,” Horwath said.
Horwath said that the province must also hand over management of long-term care homes that are in poor states to hospitals. The premier said everything is