The Quiet Extraction (film)

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A short 3D explainer of the investigation, narrated with an AI voice. “Extraction” is a metaphor for where money goes inside a budget; no wrongdoing by any person, company or public body is alleged.

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Running time
3:50
Published
2026-10-19
Language
English

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  1. Play from 0:00 Ontario’s 2026 budget provides 965 million dollars to the Ontario Autism Program
  2. Play from 0:07 in 2026-27,
  3. Play from 0:09 including 186 million in new funding.
  4. Play from 0:13 What share of it reaches core clinical services?
  5. Play from 0:17 According to the article,
  6. Play from 0:18 as of May 13, 2026,
  7. Play from 0:21 91,974 children were registered in the Ontario Autism Program.
  8. Play from 0:27 20,711 held an active Core Funding Agreement.
  9. Play from 0:31 71,263 did not.
  10. Play from 0:35 Documents obtained by The Trillium through freedom of information show that less
  11. Play from 0:40 than half of the 691.2 million dollars spent on the Ontario Autism
  12. Play from 0:45 Program in 2023-24 went to core clinical services.
  13. Play from 0:50 The documents also list 14 million dollars
  14. Play from 0:53 for Connections for Students,
  15. Play from 0:55 26.5 million for system capacity building initiatives,
  16. Play from 0:59 and 57.9 million for AccessOAP,
  17. Play from 1:03 which handles registration,
  18. Play from 1:04 intake and payments to families.
  19. Play from 1:07 Accerta Services Inc.
  20. Play from 1:09 was selected in 2021 to lead the independent intake organization
  21. Play from 1:14 for the Ontario Autism Program,
  22. Play from 1:16 which operates as AccessOAP.
  23. Play from 1:19 Ontario’s Public Accounts show provincial payments to Accerta companies rose from about
  24. Play from 1:24 202.5 million dollars in 2018-19 to 672 million in 2024-25,
  25. Play from 1:32 across every program they administer.
  26. Play from 1:35 Accerta is involved in administering Ontario Works,
  27. Play from 1:38 the Ontario Disability Support Program and the Ontario Autism Program.
  28. Play from 1:43 The article says the figure covers all of them
  29. Play from 1:46 and is not the cost of administering the autism program alone.
  30. Play from 1:50 In 2023-24,
  31. Play from 1:52 intake and administration through AccessOAP accounted
  32. Play from 1:56 for 57.9 million dollars.
  33. Play from 1:59 The article’s analysis:
  34. Play from 2:01 nothing in the published record ties the administrator’s pay to how fast
  35. Play from 2:04 the queue shrinks.
  36. Play from 2:06 Accerta told CP24 the funding it administers flows directly to eligible beneficiaries
  37. Play from 2:11 based on contractual terms.
  38. Play from 2:13 The article’s reading:
  39. Play from 2:15 intake work follows the size of the registered population,
  40. Play from 2:18 not the number of children who receive therapy.
  41. Play from 2:21 A reading of structure, not an allegation about anyone’s conduct.
  42. Play from 2:25 A Toronto Star investigation found that emergency placements
  43. Play from 2:29 for children with complex needs can cost upward of 200,000 dollars per
  44. Play from 2:34 child per year,
  45. Play from 2:35 and in some cases have approached 1 million.
  46. Play from 2:38 Between April 2023 and March 2024,
  47. Play from 2:41 339 children and teens in child welfare care were living in unlicensed
  48. Play from 2:46 settings, up from 124 two years earlier.
  49. Play from 2:50 In the article’s illustration,
  50. Play from 2:52 one emergency placement at 500,000 dollars a year costs about what 75
  51. Play from 2:58 children receive at the 6,600 dollar minimum band.
  52. Play from 3:02 The article reads this as a structure where crisis spending is mandatory
  53. Play from 3:06 and prevention is rationed.
  54. Play from 3:08 That is analysis, not a finding about anyone’s intent.
  55. Play from 3:12 Recent waitlist figures came to light through data obtained by the Ontario
  56. Play from 3:16 Autism Coalition and OPSEU,
  57. Play from 3:19 reported by CP24 on July 10, 2026.
  58. Play from 3:23 The Ontario.ca program pages,
  59. Play from 3:26 updated April 16, 2026,
  60. Play from 3:28 show no current count.
  61. Play from 3:30 Why is not on the record.
  62. Play from 3:32 This is about whether children get funded,
  63. Play from 3:34 not about any therapy.
  64. Play from 3:36 The question is money, not method.
  65. Play from 3:39 Ask your MPP why 77.5 percent of registered children do not hold
  66. Play from 3:44 an active Core Funding Agreement.
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