The Government of Ontario yesterday introduced its plan to address some of the issues facing the province’s health care system. It also tabled Bill 7 – More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 for first reading in the Ontario Legislature. 

The Act will “amend the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021 with respect to patients requiring an alternate level of care and other matters and to make a consequential amendment to the Health Care Consent Act, 1996.”

While not strictly an employment and labour law matter, it is an important issue that affects all Ontarians, and I thought you might be interested in having access to the full announcement, plan and Bill.

Click »» here to read the full News Release.

The government plan can be viewed online here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/plan-stay-open-health-system-stability-and-recovery

The Plan can also be downloaded as a pdf: https://files.ontario.ca/moh-plan-to-stay-open-en-2022-08-18.pdf

Bill 7 can be viewed here: https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-7

To provide some context, I you may also wish to read this overview and analysis of the plan and Bill from Sussex Strategy Group. Sussex has long and deep experience in government relations and public policy and has kindly allowed me to share their observations with you. I always find their perspectives well thought out and informative. I hope you will also.

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