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Anita Szigeti
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Mental health lawyer; counsel to patients held in seclusion at Waypoint.
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Ontario's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital has kept severely mentally ill patients locked alone in rooms for years — one man for about 20 years — in conditions an independent reviewer found akin to what the UN "deemed to constitute torture." The Ford government was warned in 2018 and responded with a single phone call.
Counsel to the patients. Refused to sign the Ministry of Health’s non-disclosure agreement for its confidential review of the forensic mental health system, saying she had never heard of such a thing in three decades.