Ontario Premier Doug Ford will make an announcement in Niagara Falls on Friday.
He will be joined by Transport Secretary Caroline Mulroney for the address at 12pm.
Earlier this week, Ford was in the Maritimes to meet with his East Coast counterparts to discuss health care in Canada.
Locally, Ontario’s health care system has been strained by staff shortages during the summer months, causing some emergency departments to close for hours or even days.
The prime ministers announced at a joint press conference Monday that a “Team Canada” approach is needed to solve the country’s health care problems, but offered no specifics.
For his part, Ford said the country’s premiers and the federal government should draw on ideas to fix the health system from nurses, doctors and hospital chiefs, adding he was confident those experts would find a “solution”.
“We look forward to having a cooperative relationship with the federal government,” Ford said at the time. “It’s a Team Canada approach that we have to take.”
Last week, the province unveiled a plan for “health care system stability and recovery,” a strategy that includes freeing up beds in hospitals and long-term care facilities, hiring thousands of new health workers and investing in independent and private clinics offering OHIP services.
After the announcement, Ontario health unions and workers spoke out, criticizing the government’s efforts, saying they had “serious concerns” about the plan and the lack of consideration in repealing Bill 124, a law that caps nurses’ wages at a one per cent increase annually.
CP24.com will stream the announcement live online.
With files from Katherine Declerq and The Canadian Press
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