Health minister defends layoffs at North Bay hospital as 'appropriate'

Ontario Health Minister Sylvie Jones said the 40 jobs cut at the North Bay Regional Health Centre are “completely appropriate,” during question period at Queen’s Park on Thursday. Adding that “not only is it appropriate, but it is necessary” for the government to ensure hospitals “have a path to (fiscal) balance.” NDP Health Critic France Gélinas and Labour Critic Jamie West both asked the government about the layoffs on Thursday morning, with G&e