The opposition is not letting up on protesting legislation that allows hospitals to move patients into long term care homes, not necessarily in their community.
Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa brought up the issue at Queen’s Park Tuesday and says for many residential school survivors, Bill-7 is adding insult to injury.
Mamakwa says the legislation simply doesn’t work for northern communities or first nations.
“They do not want to be forced to leave, to spend, their last years, far away from home,” Mamakwa said during Question Period.
“They are asking for more home care and long term care, closer to home.”
Mamakwa says the bill is especially hard on residential school survivors.
“Last week I attended a gathering of Indian residential school survivors from the north and they shared their worries about Bill-7. They say that Bill-7 traumatizes residential institution survivors again. Survivors will again be moved forcefully because of a lack of long term care facilities in our communities.”
Mamakwa says the Town of Sioux Lookout went so far and sent a resolution asking the provincial government to suspend Bill-7.
