The pressure remains on the Ford government to improve autism services for residents of the north.
With northern families of autistic children watching in the legislature, the minister responsible Todd Smith suggested improvements to the system are a work in progress.
“Our Ontario autism panel was meeting throughout the summer. They’ve made well over 100 recommendations. We’re working extremely hard to implement all of the recommendations that that panel has made,” says Smith.
Smith says he also met with families this past summer when visiting Kenora, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury and North Bay.
The families claim the Ford government caused already insufficient services to disappear which took decades to build.
