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The election should be about transforming health care, not Trump

Writer's picture: John MilloyJohn Milloy

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if opposition politicians started admitting they don’t have all the answers to the health-care crisis?


Jan. 25, 2025

Hundreds of people lined up outside the Walkerton Legion Hall on a cold and snowy day recently to sign up for a new family doctor. The images of shivering people desperate to find a doctor seemed to symbolize all that is wrong with Ontario’s health-care system, John Milloy writes. Steve Russell Toronto Star file photo
Hundreds of people lined up outside the Walkerton Legion Hall on a cold and snowy day recently to sign up for a new family doctor. The images of shivering people desperate to find a doctor seemed to symbolize all that is wrong with Ontario’s health-care system, John Milloy writes. Steve Russell Toronto Star file photo

Doug Ford is going to call a snap election and who can blame him.


The Progressive Conservatives have a commanding lead in the polls and Ford’s popularity has only increased through his standing up to the Bully-in-Chief down south.


Although the PCs are riding high they do have several vulnerabilities with health care being the most noteworthy.


You see, while Ford was doing his Johnny Canuck routine, the media was filled with pictures of hundreds of people lining up for hours in the extreme cold in Walkerton. A local family physician was taking on new patients and they were all hoping to be among the lucky few to join his roster. The images of shivering people desperate to find a doctor seemed to symbolize all that is wrong with Ontario’s health-care system.


Should it be this way? In 2018, Ford promised that when it came to health care “help would be on the way.” If he was elected, he would end hallway medicine and cut hospital wait times.


Almost seven years later and things seem to have gotten worse. Recent reports have outlined the dire state of health care in Ontario including 2.5 million Ontarians without a family doctor, long wait times for medical procedures and close to 2,000 patients a day being treated in hospital hallways or other “unconventional spaces.”



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