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Another home care funding announcement came out today, this time for Mississauga-Halton. Mississauga The news this time was a little better, with a 4.1% funding increase for home care via $5.12 million for the Mississauga-Halton Community Care Access Centre.   That is a bit better than the Hamilton-Niagara area, which received 3.25%, and the Ottawa area, which received 3.74%.  This is the first CCAC to actually get the 4% funding increase suggested by the provincial government.

As two Liberals on the (presumed) left of the party declare their intention to run for the leadership, it bears recalling that almost all of the major problems the Liberals have faced in the last few years have come from attempts to re-position the party to the right. First, Premier McGuinty (and  departing Finance Minister Dwight Duncan) supported moves to privatize public services. This led to a series of failures and scandals that angered the public: Mississauga gas plant Overpaid private contractors at eHealth;  Scandalous, hidden extra costs at the Brampton "public private partnership" (P3) hospital;  Bloated salaries, highly dubious corporate payments, and limited public oversight enabled at ORNGE by privatization ;  and A massive corporate payout after the Liberals opened up energy production to for-profit corporations Indeed, the Globe reports that the corporation that won the  now infamous Mississauga gas plant project (cancelled at great expense durin