The Progressive Conservative government has passed a motion allowing it to fast-track controversial long-term care legislation without public hearings.
The motion passed Monday sends legislation directly to third reading that would allow hospital patients awaiting long-term care to be transferred to a home without their consent.
Critics say the legislation unfairly targets the sick, elderly and the vulnerable.
Green Party leader Mike Schreiner says in a tweet that the Ford government should listen to public concerns before MPP’s vote on what he says is a “wildly unpopular bill.”
But the province says there are about two thousand patients in hospital who are on a waiting list for a preferred long-term care home and Premier Doug Ford told the legislature Monday “we need them in a home.”
