Parties’ plans for long-term care don’t inspire experts

For a few weeks in the last year and a half, Canada’s political class turned its attention to long-term-care homes while the country watched them fail in real time.

Despite that, the solutions suggested by the major parties in this election have been misguided, unmeaningful, or unrealistic, and would fail to fix systemic problems that the pandemic exposed, say experts who spoke to iPolitics.

One year into the pandemic, half of all deaths from COVID-19 in Canada were residents in long-term care. As of Tuesday, 3,808 residents and staff in Ontario alone have died after contracting COVID. The only province with more deaths is Quebec, where more than 4,000 residents of nursing homes died.

As the virus ran rampant in the spring of 2020, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel were deployed to dozens of nursing homes, and described the horrifying condition and treatment of the residents therein.

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