As CityNews first reported last week, Ontario Patient Ombudsman Craig Thompson was scheduled to give a presentation this week at the “This is Long Term Care” conference happening in Toronto.

But that will now not happen.

Thompson, who was slated to talk about visitation rights at long-term care homes, decided to pull his name out of the lineup of speakers.

Thompson made the announcement by sending an email to M.P.P. Lise Vaugeois who, along with Maria Sardelis, Founder of Access to Seniors and the Disabled, was urging him to reconsider the address after concerns that he was going to argue long-term care homes could use the Trespass to Property Act to ban certain visitors.

“I have already sent a thank you letter to him thanking him for postponing this session,” Sardelis said.

Sardelis,

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