Guilty verdicts in Bondfield hospital case renew scrutiny of Infrastructure Ontario

On the evening of June 25, 2018, an e-mail landed in the inbox of a senior executive at Infrastructure Ontario, citing a litany of problems with the work done by the construction company hired to build three state-of-the-art facilities for children with special needs.

In the e-mail, Bridget Fewtrell, CEO of ErinoakKids, questioned the way the Crown agency that manages public-private infrastructure projects, IO for short, handled her complaints about the contractor, Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd.