George Smitherman
George Smitherman
George Smithermanis a Canadian politician and broadcaster. He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election. Smitherman is the first openly gay Member of Provincial Parliamentelected in Ontario, and the province's first openly gay cabinet minister. In January 2011, he joined talk radio station CFRB as a contributor and fill-in host on the Live Drive with John...
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We need to do a better job of understanding who it is we seek to serve, what their particular needs are -- and if we do that well, we can align our resources more appropriately,
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We have dealt in one or two areas (without full time medical officers) with outbreaks, and I think most people's reports are that we've dealt with those well.
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Jurisdictions like Ontario might choose to have an access target, an initial one, that is a half or a third of the way toward the destination point, ... and once we've hit it we would seek to bring in a more aggressive access target.
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We have a lot more distance to travel; that's well known to people,
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Obviously it's easier to undertake redevelopment on a site that has some reduced level of programming and patient care provided,
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We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.
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We're struggling with circumstances like this always in the institutional environment, ... (But) I'm very confident that the steps that have been taken are the appropriate ones.
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The public health units are much stronger than they were,
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This website will provide patients with information on actual wait times, broken out by procedure, by community, by hospital, by local health integration network,
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That man was most likely John Clarke. I've had a history with him.
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That has posed a challenge in terms of just not having that many people interested in doing that kind of work,
Well that's what we're working on here, today,
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This is one of the very many ideas that's out there and warrants appropriate consideration,
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This initiative is going to allow us to train more of these valuable health-care providers, so they can ply their trade in communities where there is a real need for the kind of comprehensive care they deliver.