Ottawa Exploring Criminal Reform as Liberal MP Tables Bill on Long-Term Care Neglect

Ottawa Exploring Criminal Reform as Liberal MP Tables Bill on Long-Term Care Neglect
Liberal MP Hedy Fry speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on June 15, 2017. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Cathy Legere saw firsthand the conditions that elder residents of long-term care were enduring, and the intense pressure that personal care staff were under, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The retired infection control nurse volunteered her services at the Orchard Villa home where her father-in-law, Nick, was a resident, in April 2020—and said she witnessed a deeply “broken” system before contracting the virus herself.