Hurley is travelling throughout the province, to explain how over the last decade Ontario's acute hospital funding has been on the slide compared to other provinces. In 2005-06, Ontario was "in the ballpark," with per capita funding of $1,112 compared to $1,159 for the rest of Canada, Hurley said, citing figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Ten years later, Ontario's funding was $1,396 compared to $1,750 for the rest of Canada.
He said the numbers extrapolated for Windsor are conservative, taking into account only the City of Windsor's 211,000 population, even though Windsor Regional's patients come from all over the Windsor-Essex region (population 389,000) and beyond.