A class-action lawsuit, brought forward by Rochon Genova LLP, Himelfarb Proszanski, and Cerise Latibeaudiere Law Professional Corporation, seeks to address the atrocities witnessed in the long-term care homes (LTCs) throughout Ontario during covid mismanagement.

This lawsuit, brought forward on behalf of the residents of 96 LTC homes, their families, and estates, outlines allegations pointing to Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives as “grossly negligent in their COVID-19 response, resulting in devastation in Ontario’s long-term care homes.” They allege that the government failed to prepare for and respond to the threats to these facilities and their residents and “seeks damages from the owners and operators of long-term care homes arising from their negligence, breaches of fiduciary duty and breaches of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

One of the 96 LTC homes, Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, was the first nursing home in Ontario to be hit with a COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020. What followed has been described as a suspicious unfolding of events, beginning when staff abruptly stopped coming in to work. Reports say that “the home lost nearly half of its 65 residents over a two-and-a-half-week period from March 25 to April 9, when the COVID-19 outbreak seemed to magically disappear.”

It is now well documented now that these residents, and too many others in LTC homes across Ontario, died due to “deaths of despair” and not exclusively COVID-19.

It is our hope as well that this lawsuit will shed light on the “veil of secrecy and concealment” that remains as to how this was allowed to happen.

The pain and loneliness experienced by the residents and their families, the horror of knowing what was happening and not being allowed to help family members when they desperately need our care and support. It should make us sick. But what of the staff? Did no one care enough to step in?

Police on Guard offers our heartfelt condolences as we stand with these individuals and their families in support of their undeniable human rights and the answers that they are owed. This can never happen again.

To read the article written by Tamara Ugolini of Rebel News, click here