12:16 PM
> The halt in funding is retroactive to April 1, 2018, and includes almost $800,000 in operational grants for the College's current budget year, which made up one-third of its budget. The government informed the College on Nov. 8, eight months into the fiscal year.
> Midwives deliver 15 per cent of the babies born in Ontario, care for 12 to 14 per cent of pregnant women and are turning away clients because they canât meet the demand, according to the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM), which plays an advocacy and support role for midwives.
Slightly torn on this. My initial reaction is "Ford, wtf", but supposedly midwives are paid $104k and $130k ($74k - $89k after taxes), and there's 900 of them, so expecting them to pay an additional $888 funds per year doesn't seem outrageous given their salaries.
but of course stuff like this:
> "Our relatively low membership numbers compared to other regulated health colleges mean that our revenue is not sufficient to meet our expenses," the College writes in its annual report. "In acknowledgment of this discrepancy, the Ministry provides funding annually to allow the College to fulfill its mandate of regulating midwifery in the public interest."
Makes it seem like they should be increasing their funding
or maybe members should also pay abit more too, shrug
Either way I'm sure Fords stance has nothing to do with any of this, and is basically him continuing his attacks on any programs which help someone who isn't him