August 22, 2021 - Toronto Star

Toronto Star - After a bitter week of federal campaigning, here’s a reason for hope

Every party has a collection of serious proposals for long-term care, and while the amplitude, focus and degree of government intervention differ from party to party, they all agree on the main elements: The system is broken, it needs infrastructure, more workers, and better options for aging at home. And heaps of federal-provincial co-operation.

“It would be frankly political suicide to not recognize this was a policy failure,” says Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute of Ageing at Ryerson University.