Breaking news: “The Trudeau government announced, following the grim revelations about long-term care in Canada, that Parliament will be recalled in a special emergency session to deal with the scandal of abuse and neglect of its elderly citizens. ‘Parliament must weigh in,’ said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ‘on the savage neglect of its old people. Thousands of our seniors have been abused, neglected and died. Parliament must explore this national shame.’ ” Except that didn’t happen.
Second, we have the information now on Ontario’s LTC. Quebec’s should come next, and there is no reason to think it won’t have its alarms, too. Third, it will be a real shock if in the rest of the provinces and the territories there is not some variant of this utter scandal in the treatment of the old. Premiers have a massive responsibility. But let us not have the “jurisdictional” question cloud what is a general and national shame.
So it has come to pass that this most pathetic scandal will not be debated on Thursday or Friday or next week, just as over the past 50 plus days Canada has not had a real government during the biggest health and financial crisis in modern times. That’s scandal on top of scandal. Utterly reprehensible and contemptible.
Do we have a true national voice on matters of the highest national consequence, or not? Obviously not.
Thank you Rex for telling it like it is and for calling out this government determined to disregard the democracy and the people they were elected to represent. Is this what Trudeau meant when he said Canada would be the first post national state?
FairQuestions As a non significant Albertan I can only agree with you. No ability to change anything in a country that has lost its way
Boris Johnson contracted COVID19 , There's a trail of the virus thru the White House behind Trump and Bolsonaro thinks it's a little flu , but sure , lets open Parliament because Right Wing Rex doesn't care for the Prime Minister .
Rex retire before you make a bigger fool of yourself than you already have.
FairQuestions Thank you Rex. You stand head and shoulders above your peers. Parliamentarians, we see what you’ve done.
Uh Rex that's kind of what you're supposed to do
Fascist propaganda
To anyone who's willing to waste time reading this drivel--does Rex mention that the two provinces with the worst LTC home crises have right-wing governments, or does he not even bother putting a fig leaf on his wretched, fellatial partisanship? rexmurphy
Great article The media is also complicit. If the MSM stopped showing up at Trudeau's cottage he would be forced back to parliament because he would have no audience. You hold a lot of democratic power, use it: caj ctvnews globalnews cbcnews globeandmail TorontoStar
Also OMA says province rejected offer of increased physician support at nursing homes in April.
We need more Rex right now
And that's not even counting the fake climate one.
Democratic principles are kryptonite to this regime. Despite your political stripe, if you value democracy and accountability you will find Justins conduct galling.
LTC falls under provincial govt.Why aren’t you asking provincial govts to resume legislature and answer these questions. You fail to mention Ontario auditor general report in Dec 2019 & on March 24th For-Profit Nursing Homes Hire Tory Insiders To Lobby Ford Government. onpoli
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