Ontario provincial leaders are at the halfway point of their campaigns in the race to becoming the next premier.
In Toronto today, Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie announced her plans to end hallway health care and Mike Schreiner unveiled the Greens’ 2025 platform. Meanwhile, Doug Ford is in Washington D.C. and Marit Stiles was last seen in Southwest Ontario yesterday to discuss affordability.
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Here’s what Crombie and Schreiner had to say today.
BONNIE CROMBIE
In Toronto, the Liberal Party leader addressed her concerns with hallway health care in Ontario, where hospitals have become so overcrowded that patients are being treated everywhere except for in actual beds.
“I’ve received emails from people who have watched other patients die in a hallway, from a daughter whose mother passed away after being forced out of an overcrowded hospital too soon, from far, far too many who cannot find a family doctor,” Crombie said in a statement.
She pointed the finger at Ford for the province’s diminished health-care system, and promised a Liberal government would get things back on track.
“Seven years ago, Doug Ford promised to end hallway health care and he didn’t get it done,” Crombie said.
“I will. What I am hearing from people all across Ontario is heartbreaking. It’s not acceptable. And we can and must do better.”
The Liberal leader outlined her plan to address the health-care crisis in Ontario, which would include helping hospitals hire and retain the staff they need, investing in hospital infrastructure, and making sure all Ontarians have a family doctor.
“We can fix health care in Ontario. But to do that, we need to make it a priority,” Crombie said.
“We have to treat this crisis in our system as the deadly epidemic that it is and take a wartime approach to getting this right. No one in Ontario should die on a stretcher in a hallway. We can, and we will, do so much better.”
Doug Ford said he would end hallway health care. He didn’t get it done.
— Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦 (@BonnieCrombie) February 12, 2025
Ontario’s Liberals will. pic.twitter.com/RAbzR8ytBF
MIKE SCHREINER
Green Party leader Mike Schreiner launched his party’s 2025 platform today, which is focused on restoring fairness to the people of Ontario.
“Our plan builds affordable homes and ends renovictions, restores fairness to our health-care and education systems, protects prime farmland and lowers your energy bills,” Schreiner said in a press conference.
“We know that we can build a better Ontario together. But it means getting to work today, and that’s what Greens are committed to do.
The Greens’ plan listed a number of improvements, including building two million homes, cutting taxes for low- and middle-income earners under $65,000 and households making under $100,000, and doubling ODSP and OW rates, which the Liberals also stated they would do.
“All the things that a provincial government should do – build affordable homes, attract health-care workers, support our neighbours struggling with their mental health, fund reliable public transit – Doug Ford has walked away from,” Schreiner said.
“It doesn’t have to be this way. Ontario Greens will fight for fairness so you can live in a province with a future you can believe in.”
Ontario's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world.
— Mike Schreiner (@MikeSchreiner) February 11, 2025
But instead of taking action, Doug Ford has let it spiral further and further out of control.
Ontario Greens are taking action so you can afford to live in the communities you know and love. pic.twitter.com/r0TliFaJZW
