Nous vous donnerons le monde. The failure to provide funding for a growing and aging population and other cost pressures, will mean real reductions in essential medical services and longer waiting times. While corporations are guaranteed tax cuts for the next five years, hospitals, their employees and our communities were not given any guarantees today that the province will be there to support them. Hospitals will now be forced to suggest service cuts to the government for its consideration. Studies have shown that Ontario hospitals are already the most efficient in the country.
Hospitals are already at the forefront of accountability.
For example, three years ago, Ontario hospitals voluntarily launched the most comprehensive hospital report cards in Canadian history. Hospital Boards are constantly mindful of their responsibility to ensure that taxpayers' dollars are spent wisely. Accountability is a two way street. The Budget also reduces funding available to hospital capital projects. Communities across Ontario are having difficulty raising their share of the costs to finance improvements to hospital facilities.