Ontario Health Coalition Health Action Assembly
January 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM Central YMCA 20 Grosvenor Street Toronto, ON
The Ford government is privatizing our hospitals, long-term care, home care, primary care, Public Health, addiction treatment and more. Illegal user fees and extra billing of patients are rampant and the Ford government is letting them happen. Closures of local hospitals’ emergency departments, urgent care, birthing, inpatient beds, operating rooms and entire sites continue. The Ford government is driving our public health care into disarray while pouring resources into expanding privatization.
Now we are facing a provincial election. At stake are the future ownership of our vital health services, the future existence of local hospitals, even the future of single-tier public medicare.
Come and hear where the fightback is seeing some success. Working with the families of long-term care, the unions and health professionals, academics and advocates, we have forced the reinstatement of inspections and the beginning of fines for substandard care in long-term care. Ontario has the deepest opposition to health care privatization in the country, in part because of our work. Polls are indicating that approximately 80% of Ontarians think the Ford government is doing a poor or very poor job on health care. The majority of Ontarians oppose privatization and, no matter their political stripe, people are deeply opposed to the closure of their local hospital services.