Exceeding an Unlimited Budget
November 30, 2025
“He had an unlimited budget and he exceeded it.”
Those were the words of then-Washington Redskins owner Edward Bennett Williams after firing coach George Allen.
He might as well have been speaking about Niagara Health, which recently announced nearly 100 job cuts in order to address a $26 million deficit.
This is the same Niagara Health that receives exceedingly generous funding from governments and private donors. They’re literally swimming in cash, most of it yours and mine. How is it even possible to not balance the books when you’re raking in that kind of dough? I wonder. But when you realize that they spend so much on spin doctors, DEI, executive salaries and all sorts of other assorted bullshit that doesn’t have a thing to do with health care, the question answers itself. Did you know, for example, that Niagara Health CEO Lynn Guerriero raked in over $535,000 last year? That’s up nearly $200,000 since the outbreak of the war.
If only there was a “nose in the book” penalty for the bigwigs at Niagara Health.
Jennie Stevens, our MPP, is outraged. Not that Niagara Health has blown the budget. But that they don’t get more of your money and mine.
“Our hospitals are struggling. Cutting staff is the last thing Niagara needs,” she said on X/Twitter. “When positions disappear, it’s not just numbers on a page; it’s your grandparent waiting longer for care, your injured child sitting in an overcrowded ER, your loved one wondering if help will arrive.”
Funny, but I don’t recall her or any member of her party being too broken up over front-line health-care workers being shown the door for refusing the genocidal poison injections that are causing such an overload in the system. In fact, to this day, nurses can’t get a job in Ontario without having taken the death shots. But I digress.
Our hospitals are struggling. She’s right on that one.
But what they struggle with the most is fiscal responsibility.
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