Health Minister in for a tough haul
Plus: Sweltering-in cabinet, Horwath on the media circuit, campaign managers' postmortem, staff moves
ABOVE THE FOLD
SWELTERING-IN CABINET — A slight change in plans for Friday’s cabinet swearing-in ceremony: the Premier’s Office has made the entire event outdoors-only.
With the humidex set at a scorching 31 degrees, it’s now more of a “sweating” ceremony, as one member of the Press Gallery put it.
Premier DOUG FORD’s new crop of ministers will take the oath outside Queen’s Park during a 90-minute ceremony that kicks of at 11:15 a.m.
POLL WATCH — Whoever takes up the mantle from outgoing Health Minister CHRISTINE ELLIOTT will have their work cut out for them.
That’s the upshot from a fresh poll from Angus Reid, which suggests most Canadians — 72 per cent — are critical about how their province is handling health care as the pandemic eases up and more turn an eye to the systems in place. The number of those who say their province is doing a good job of managing health care is at its lowest in eight years, ac…