Ontario has rejected a request by an independent commission asking for more time to complete its final report on the causes and prevention of COVID-19 spread in long-term care (LTC) homes across the province. LTC minister Merrilee Fullerton says the deadline of the final report is still expected by April 30. But the province’s long-term care COVID-19 commissioners, tasked by the Ford government to find out how and why the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus spread in the homes, said in a letter (pdf) to Fullerton that the reason for the extension is because they “continue to encounter significant delays in obtaining government information” central to their investigation. “Most documents responsive to the Commission’s document summonses and requests remain outstanding,” said the commissioners in their Dec. 9, 2020 letter, while also attributing the delay to the large amount of data they expect to receive. “We understand the rationale for completing the report …