Will LHIN Bureaucrats Be the Stars of the 2010 Sunshine List?


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Today the Ontario Sunshine List of employees making over $100,000 is released. If it is anything like past Sunshine Lists, this year’s version will be riddled with examples of highly-paid, unaccountable, Liberal friends and insiders getting rich off of Ontario tax dollars.

One of the worst offenders to date has been the unelected and anonymous appointees at Dalton McGuinty’s LHIN bureaucracies. Since 2006 a total of $176 million health care dollars have been wasted on administration and executive compensation for the LHINS – dollars that should have been spent on frontline patient care. This includes former McGuinty Government appointee Barry Monaghan who was paid $1.1 million dollars over the course of three years. Monaghan would continue collect $351,000 from the Toronto Central LHIN a year after he stopped working there.

Dalton McGuinty has already been caught using the 2010 Budget to cancel the public legislative review of the LHINS and blocked the reappointment of Ontario’s Ombudsman after he conducted his own investigation into a LHIN. It is clear that Dalton McGuinty wants to hide the truth about how many Liberal friends and insiders are getting rich off of his LHIN slush funds.

Quotes

“Today, while everyday Ontario families are forced to cut back under an onslaught of taxes and fees, the ranks of McGuinty Government executives, consultants, and appointees getting rich from our health care dollars continues to swell.”

– Christine Elliott, Ontario PC MPP for Whitby – Oshawa, Deputy Leader and Ontario PC Health Critic

“Just as we saw in the eHealth scandal, Liberal friends and insiders are continuing to get rich from money that should be going to frontline patient care. It’s no wonder that Dalton McGuinty wants to keep the truth about his LHINs out of the sunshine.”

– Christine Elliott, Ontario PC MPP for Whitby – Oshawa, Deputy Leader and Ontario PC Health Critic

Quick Facts

  • Today the 2009 Sunshine List of government employees making $100,000 per year will be released. According to last year’s sunshine list, the number of government employees making $100K or more per year is more than two and half times as large as when Dalton McGuinty took office in 2003. (20,249 to 53,715).
  • Between 2006 -2008 – the number of LHIN bureaucrats on Sunshine List grew by almost 150% (40 to 95). Over that same period total salaries and compensation at the LHINS grew by 213%.
  • The CEOs at LHINs made an average of $261,000 in 2008. That resulted in $3.9 million diverted away from patient care and into their pockets. In 2008, 15 bureaucrats at Dalton McGuinty’s LHINs took home over $200,000.


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