Public money ‘shouldn’t pad profits’

The Ontario NDP, which just became the official opposition on the province, ran its campaign on a promise “to devote government funding solely to not-for-profit providers of public services, signaling a sweeping shift in how government programs are delivered. The NDP has drawn much attention for its pledge to buy back the privatized half of Hydro One, but that's just one way the party aims to diminish the role of private business in the public sector. (…) As well as largely barring profit-making companies from offering taxpayer-funded services, the NDP is vowing to end the private-public P3 projects often used to build hospitals and other infrastructure, and launch the biggest expansion ‘ever seen’ of non-profit community health centers, an alternative to private doctor's offices.” Fred Hahn, Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, “argued the academic data does unequivocally show social and health services are best provided by not-for-profits. There is a principle at stake, too, he added.”

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May 30, 2018




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