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Christine Elliott
Clearpoint Health Network (lobbyist)
Ontario Minister of Health from June 2018 to June 2022. Announced the June 2019 layoffs of 416 health agency workers on a single day. After leaving office, registered with the Ontario Lobbyist Registry as a lobbyist for Clearpoint Health Network — Canada's largest private surgical clinic chain — with the stated objective of increasing base funding available to Clearpoint from the provincial government.
Connected Scandals
The Ford government broke its 2018 promise that "not a single person will lose their job" — eliminating hundreds of health-care positions in 2019 and setting a funding path that Ontario's own Financial Accountability Office projects will cut over 9,000 nurse and PSW positions by 2027-28, in the middle of a nursing shortage already driving emergency room closures across the province.
As Minister of Health from 2018 to 2022, Elliott oversaw the 2019 elimination of 825 health agency positions — announced the same year Ford promised "not a single person will lose their job" — and the planned $200M cut to public health funding. After leaving the ministry in June 2022, she registered as a lobbyist for Clearpoint Health Network, the largest private surgical clinic chain in Canada, seeking to increase provincial funding flowing to private providers at the same time public hospitals were being defunded.