Health & Healthcare
Drugs and addiction
Promesses de Liberal
"Provide wraparound support to help people recover from addictions, including rapidly building supportive housing units." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Act decisively and collaboratively with those on the frontline to bring deaths caused by opioid use down to zero in four years through expanded treatment, recovery and rehabilitation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Family doctors and primary care
Promesses de Liberal
"Give every person in Ontario access to a family doctor by attracting, recruiting, retaining and integrating 3,100 family doctors by 2029." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Create two new medical schools and expand capacity in existing medical schools, doubling the number of medical school spots and residency positions." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and accessible mental health services for children, youth and teenagers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Accelerate the process to integrate at least 1,200 qualified and experienced internationally trained doctors over the next four years through Practice Ready Ontario." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Eliminate fax machines, enhance virtual care, introduce centralized referral systems with patient portals and implement interoperable electronic medical records to let doctors and other healthcare professionals focus on patients instead of paperwork." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Incentivize family doctors to serve in rural and northern communities and mentor the next generation to prevent future shortages." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Francophone health
Promesse de Liberal
"Develop a Francophone Healthcare Strategy to ensure Franco-Ontarians are able to access care in their first language." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Health administration and privatisation
Promesse de Liberal
"Investigate Ford’s privatization plans, including a full review of Health Minister Sylvia Jones’ mandate letters and audit how Ontario is using the more than $20 billion in federal health transfers it receives every year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Health staffing
Promesses de Liberal
"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Eliminate wage discrepancy across the system, regardless of whether you work for a hospital, in-home care or in long-term care." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Crackdown on Ford’s for-profit healthcare by regulating temporary nursing agencies." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Long-term care
Promesse de Liberal
"Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Mental health
Promesse de Liberal
"Introduce universal mental healthcare under OHIP by expanding the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, covering conditions like anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, hiring more social workers, and defining standards and coverage so that all people in Ontario have a basic form of coverage they can count on." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
Seniors' health and wellbeing
Promesses de Liberal
"Guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams, boosting annual home care funding by 25%." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Help seniors age at home gracefully by creating a Seniors’ Home Care Tax Credit, saving up to 25% of up to $10,000 in medical expenses a year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22
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Biographie
Holly Rasky is the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in Toronto Centre.
Holly is a long-time Cabbagetown resident and she brings experience, smarts, and integrity to everything she does.
A lawyer by training, she makes a difference in the world through her passion for policy, advocacy, and helping others. She was the driving force behind the creation of Telehealth Ontario (now Health811) and she was the founding Executive Director of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Diversity Institute – a national platform advancing women entrepreneurs.
Holly believes that Toronto Centre thrives when leaders listen and people are heard. She will fight to fix what Doug Ford broke – from healthcare waitlists to empty storefronts on Parliament Street. With Bonnie Crombie’s team, she wants to replace complacency with compassionate action and deliver local results – fixing ER wait times at St. Michael’s Hospital and protecting renters from predatory landlords, ensuring our seniors can age in dignity, our artists can afford their studios, and our kids inherit a livable climate.
Holly Rasky believes in positive politics and positive change. She is the champion Toronto Centre needs to build a stronger, more inclusive community for all of us.