Ford gets emotional addressing ‘extremely troubling’ report on long-term-care homes | COVID-19

Ford calls the Canadian Forces report on five long-term-care homes in Ontario “gut-wrenching” and “horrific.” He says reading those reports were the hardest thing he’s done as premier.

Cockroach infestatations, residents left to wallow in soiled diapers, COVID-19 patients allowed to wander around, forceful feeding of the elderly, and a “culture of fear to use supplies because those cost money.”

Those are some of the horrifying findings uncovered by Canadian Armed Forces personnel dispatched to help in five Ontario nursing homes during the pandemic.

In a searing 23-page military report made public Tuesday, Ontario’s troubled long-term care system — where 1,538 residents and six staff members have died of COVID-19— is laid bare.

Ford says the system has been broken for decades but “the buck stops with me.”

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