Regulations and Government
Canada Officials Seeing Red over Aeromed Operator Ornge

Provincial parliament committee hearings into Ontario’s air ambulance service, Ornge, will continue into the summer, thanks to a last-minute deal struck among Canada’s three major political parties. Progressive Conservatives had accused Ontario’s Liberal-led government of trying to stymie the ongoing probe into Ornge by the Select Committee on Public Accounts and threatened to retaliate by blocking Ornge’s $150 million annual government funding.

Meanwhile, Ontario government ombudsman Andre Marin compared Ornge to a fish “rotting from the head down” and pressed for broader powers to investigate it. At a press conference last week, a clearly frustrated Marin accused the government of shielding Ornge from further scrutiny.

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