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Position
End The Wait Ontario is an independent advocacy and information project. It is not the Ontario Autism Program, AccessOAP, a service provider, a political party, or a government agency. Editorial conclusions are the site's own and should remain distinguishable from the primary records they cite.
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Disclosure register
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Who pays for the site, whether sponsors or institutional donors influence it, and where operating costs come from.
Review disclosure›How visits are counted, how automated traffic is separated from human use, and why raw request totals are not treated as people.
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Review disclosure›How factual errors are reviewed, corrected, dated, and distinguished from disagreements about interpretation.
Review disclosure›Accountability ledger
This tracker summarizes the accountability mechanisms exercised through the project, including Freedom of Information requests and constituent messages. It does not prove policy impact; it records whether a response was sought and whether one was received.
FOI requests filed
Freedom of Information requests
Filed with MCCSS, the Ministry of Health, MPBSD, and Treasury Board, log maintained by the site operator and available on request.
Substantive responses
Answered (64% of filed)
Median 47 days to first response vs. the 30-day legal window
Past statutory window
Overdue (21% of filed)
Filed more than 30 days ago with no response and no formal extension notice on file
Letters to MPPs
Sent via this site
Constituent letters sent through the on-site MPP letter tool since launch
Substantive replies
Returned (15% reply rate)
Written replies from MPPs, ministers, or their offices. Auto-acknowledgements excluded.
Counters cover FOI requests filed by this site’s operator and letters sent through the on-site MPP letter tool. Individual file numbers, requester identities, and case-strategy details are intentionally omitted.
last reconciled 2026-06-24
Editorial control
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Corrections
A material factual error should be corrected. A disagreement with an argument is not automatically a factual correction.
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What practical steps can parents take while waiting?
VerifiedFamilies should join the OAP as soon as autism is suspected, document every contact with MCCSS, and request written explanations for delays. These records can support complaints to the Ombudsman, human‑rights applications, or collective advocacy when wait times extend beyond two years with no pathway to services.
Source: Ontario Ombudsman complaint guidelines; OHRC Policy on Accessible Education · Open source record
Is the Ontario Autism Program underfunded?
VerifiedThe 2026-27 Ontario Budget allocated $965 million for autism services, up from $779 million in 2025-26, while 91,974 children are registered. The budget record supports the current allocation; the historical FAO funding model is cited separately.
Source: 2026-27 Ontario Budget · Open source record
Sources on this page
Key claims are paired with their source, evidence tier, and verification date so readers can inspect the public record directly.
91,974
children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program
22.5%
Only 20,711 children have active funding agreements (22.5%), less than one in four
According to the FAO (2020 report), OAP funding covers less than one-third of estimated need at 2018-19 service levels
$965M
Ontario allocated $965M to the Ontario Autism Program in 2026-27
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