No due process. No rights and no humanity.

Important Research and Advocacy Report Calling For Criminal Investigations In Long-Term Care Institutions

November 4, 2024

Seniors for Social Action (Ontario) - SSAO

A still frame from hidden camera footage shows a personal support worker aggressively handling a resident of an Ontario nursing home as she lies in bed, unable to move without her help. (CBC Marketplace October 23, 2020)

The SSAO Board believes that incidents and conditions documented in Ministry of Long Term Care Inspection Reports continue to rise to the level of failure to provide the necessaries of life and criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death, and merit police investigation.

This report details those conditions and calls on the responsible Ministers to finally take the necessary action, obtain Cabinet approval to approach the OPP with a request that facilities that continue to cause residents harm or are sufficiently negligent as to cause their deaths, be subject to criminal investigation.

This report was sent to the Attorney General, the Solicitor General, the Minister of Long-Term Care and the Premier and their staff.  

Copies have also been sent to the Federal Attorney General and his staff.

The full report can be read here:  https://tinyurl.com/3pcf7mdr