On May 24^th,  Community Living Toronto co-hosted an Election Forum with Community Living Ontario and Reena. There were representatives from the Liberal Party, the NDP and the Greens present. The Progressive Conservative Party was offered a seat at the table, but declined to send a candidate. “Their absence speaks volumes,” said Matthews, who later went on to speculate that the PCs may be ‘ashamed’ of a platform that may not offer much for the developmental services sector.

Candidates had seven minutes to give opening statements on their parties’ stances on several key areas related to developmental disabilities in Ontario, such as poverty, waitlists for the transition from child to adult services, and affordable housing, before each having two minutes to respond to each of a set of seven related questions submitted by forum attendees.

Watch the full forum here:

2018 Provincial Election Report Card on DS