By Doug Draper
The Niagara Health System – a totally un-elected body the former provincial government of Mike Harris and Tim Hudak made responsible for managing the majority of what’s left of our hospitals in the region and that Dalton McGuinty and Jim Bradley and their government have allowed to proceed – owe we the people, who pay property taxes in this region, $3.1 million.
And it is about time the NHS and its provincial masters paid up!
After all, it was the NHS and the province’s other layer of un-elected and high-priced bureaucracy, the Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN) for this area, that decided it was a good idea to close the emergency rooms at the only two hospitals – Port Colborne’s and Fort Erie’s – in the southern tier. Continue reading
