PRIVATIZATION

This legislation is ostensibly to facilitate the Ford government’s plan to expand private clinics. It replaces the Independent Health Facilities Act. Since the government already had the power to do what it announced publicly (privatize day surgeries and diagnostics from our public hospitals) under existing legislation, this part of our analysis of the legislation focuses on determining what has changed in Bill 60 compared to the existing Independent Health Facilities Act and to understand why they brought in new legislation rather than continuing under the existing Act or amending it.