📢 Call to Solidarity
🏥 URGENT CALL TO ACTION: DEFEND PUBLIC MEDICARE
Please Share Widely – The Situation Is Extremely Urgent
📅 Come to the Ontario Legislature
Wednesday, October 29
Queen’s Park, Toronto
Or, if you’re not close to Toronto —
➡️ Host a Legislature Watch event in your community!
⚠️ What’s at Stake
Ontario’s single-tier public medicare system and the future of our local public hospitals are on the line.
Premier Ford’s government is accelerating hospital privatization, announcing 57 new private clinics that will take more than 100,000 diagnostic tests and millions in funding away from public hospitals. These clinics are the first step toward two-tier healthcare, where patients are charged thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests that should be covered by OHIP.
We cannot allow the normalization of extra-billing and user fees that violate the Canada Health Act. If we don’t fight back now, we risk losing universal healthcare in Ontario.
🗓️ Legislature Day – Wednesday, October 29
9:00 a.m. – Arrive at Queen’s Park Security
9:00–9:30 a.m. – Go through security to fill the Public Galleries
10:00 a.m. – Watch Question Period (Ford and Health Minister face questions)
12:00 p.m. – Lunch break
1:00 p.m. – Press conference in the Media Studio
2:00 p.m. – Event concludes
✋ RSVP Required
Please RSVP by Monday, October 27 at 12:00 p.m. (noon)
📧 Email: info@OntarioHC.ca
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🌐 Can’t Come to Toronto? Host a “Legislature Watch”
If you live too far away, you can still make a difference:
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Host a Legislature Watch event in your community
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Invite friends, neighbours, and local media
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Watch the Legislature live at 10:00 a.m. via the Legislative Assembly website (“Live House Video”)
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Watch the press conference livestream at 1:00 p.m.
If you’re watching virtually, please RSVP and indicate “Virtual Attendance” — your presence will also be recognized from the Legislature floor.
🚗 Directions to Queen’s Park
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Subway: Queen’s Park Station (Line 1 – Yonge-University Line)
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Parking: Street parking on Hoskins Ave., Grosvenor St., Surrey Place, and Grenville St.
Nearby lots: Women’s College Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto General Hospital.
💪 We Must Act Now
We are on the cusp of losing public medicare.
The Ford government’s actions are deliberate:
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Handing over hospital services to private operators
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Allowing private clinics to upsell and extra-bill patients
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Refusing to investigate patient complaints filed months ago
If we don’t push back, we’ll return to an Ontario where the ability to pay determines access to care.
We built public medicare once. We can defend it again.
📢 Join us at Queen’s Park or organize in your community.
Together, we can protect our hospitals and stop privatization.
📧 info@OntarioHC.ca