To The Legislative Assembly of Ontario / À l’Assemblée législative de l’Ontario:
WHEREAS there has been a shortage of Personal Support Workers (PSWs) in Long Term Care and Home care in Ontario for many years; / ALORS QUE depuis de nombreuses années, il y a une pénurie de préposés aux services de soutien personnel (PSSPs) dans les soins de longue durée (SLD) et les soins à domicile en Ontario ;
WHEREAS Ontario’s Personal Support Workers are overworked, underpaid and underappreciated; leading to many of them leaving the profession; / ALORS QUE les préposés aux services de soutien personnel de l’Ontario sont surchargés, sous-payés et sous-estimés, ce qui amène bon nombre d’entre elles et eux, à quitter la profession ;
WHEREAS the lack of PSWs has created a crisis in LTC, a broken home care system, and poor quality care for LTC Home residents and home care clients; / ALORS QUE le manque de PSSP a créé une crise dans les SLD, un système de soins à domicile défaillant et des soins de piètre qualité pour les résident.es des maisons de SLD et les client.es des soins à domicile ;
WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follow : tell Premier Ford to act now to make PSW jobs a career, with full time employment, good wages, paid sick days, benefits, a pension plan and a manageable workload in order to respect the important work of PSWs and improve patient care. / NOUS, soussignées, pétitionnons l’Assemblée législative de l’Ontario de dire au premier ministre Ford d’agir maintenant pour faire des emplois de PSSP, une carrière à temps plein, avec de bons salaires, des congés de maladie payés, des avantages sociaux, un plan de retraite et une charge de travail gérable afin de respecter le travail important des PSSPs et d’améliorer les soins aux patients.
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2020 PETITION - Make PSW a career-Rendre les PSSP une carrière
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Gélinas – We pay for LifeLabs, Where is the Access?
QUEEN’S PARK – France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt and the Health Critic for her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, rose in the legislature this morning to speak to the challenges Nickel Belt residents are having accessing LifeLabs’ services.
“Since I last spoke about the problems with LifeLabs my constituents are having, waiting outside in the cold, things have gotten worse not better.
Mr. Phillips is not computer savvy and couldn’t use the online portal, so he waited 3 hours on the phone before the call dropped.
Jean-Pierre Lauzon’s wife needs blood work every ten days. She can’t book an appointment at any of the LifeLabs centres in Sudbury for December 3rd. Online everything on December 3rd has a big red X nothing is available.
Victor Boulard tried the 1-877 number for three days, he never got through. So he tried the online portal, for some reason it will not accept his password.
Mr. Denis knocked on the door of our constituency office, he had given up on the 1-877 number for LifeLabs and could not navigate the website. We tried at our office but the online portal wouldn’t book him, he’s still looking for his password.
Suzanne & Adolphe Charbonneau will have to wait 3 weeks for a simple blood test. Adolphe asked me “Why is this happening, this is paid for with public money, tax money. This is not right.” I agree with him speaker.
LifeLabs is paid for by the government and represents an important part of our health care system and their customer service is atrocious.
And that’s not all, access to flu vaccine is not any easier whether at your primary care provider, Public Health or pharmacies, nobody has flu vaccines in Nickel Belt.”
Thank you to Madame Rivet from Hanmer, who called my office to complain about Bill 175. She asks, “Why are you”—she’s actually writing to the government—“pushing this legislation through so quickly, 10 days is much too quickly? I think you’re doing this to hide your intentions from the people.“When it’s a good idea you take things very slowly and talk over and over again about an initiative. It always takes forever to make good changes.“You hide it because it will cost the little people in my community more once everything is privatized. The government won’t be overseeing it and people will be paying more, not just in money but in tears.“Why won’t you be honest about this bill and let people see it? I want to get out to protest but I only learned about this two days ago. I’m a senior with a crutch. I feel you’ve intentionally tried to keep my voice out.“You know this is wrong.”
Posted by France Gélinas on Monday, July 13, 2020
Thank you to Madame Rivet from Hanmer, who called my office to complain about Bill 175.
She asks, “Why are you”—she’s actually writing to the government—“pushing this legislation through so quickly, 10 days is much too quickly? I think you’re doing this to hide your intentions from the people.
“When it’s a good idea you take things very slowly and talk over and over again about an initiative. It always takes forever to make good changes.
“You hide it because it will cost the little people in my community more once everything is privatized. The government won’t be overseeing it and people will be paying more, not just in money but in tears.
“Why won’t you be honest about this bill and let people see it? I want to get out to protest but I only learned about this two days ago. I’m a senior with a crutch. I feel you’ve intentionally tried to keep my voice out.
“You know this is wrong.”