Public health services prevent disease outbreaks, keep our water clean, vaccinate our children, and provide school breakfast programs to children in need. Public health officials and elected leaders across Ontario have rightfully spoken out against these cuts and the danger they pose to critical and often life-saving public health programs. “This cutting of public health services cannot go forward. The most recent poll showed three out of every four surveyed think the government is on the “wrong track” due in part to the public health cuts, which merge 35 public health units into 10 and cut $200 million from their budgets. Elliott has defended the changes, saying that week that “the modernization of our public health system is something that we’ve been working on for months.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 10:06 UTC