Premier Doug Ford says there will be management-level job losses as a result of the planned merger of 20 provincial health agencies into one, but front-line jobs will be protected. When Health Minister Christine Elliott announced the health transformation last month, background materials portrayed some management and administrative work at the agencies as "duplicative," but wouldn't say if there would be job losses. During last year's election campaign, Ford often promised that under his government not a single job would be lost, but in recent weeks his government has been specifying that no "front-line" jobs will be lost.