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STOP THE PRIVATIZATION
OF OUR PUBLIC HOSPITALS
TO FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS & CLINICS


PLEASE MAKE YOUR OPINION HEARD! THIS IS A CITIZEN-RUN REFERENDUM ON THE ONTARIO
GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO PRIVATIZE OUR CORE PUBLIC HOSPITAL SERVICES TO FOR-PROFIT
HOSPITALS AND FOR-PROFIT CLINICS.


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You can vote online or you can vote in person but you can only vote once. Here's
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Our communities have spent a hundred years fundraising & volunteering to support
our local public hospitals & build services closer to home. On January 16,
Premier Doug Ford announced plans to take thousands of surgeries & diagnostic
tests out of our local public hospitals and privatize them to for-profit
hospitals & clinics. At any time, this would be devastating to our community
hospitals. Currently, with our hospitals desperately short-staffed, this will
take vital nurses, health professionals, doctors, and the funding for them away
from our public hospitals and transfer them to for-profit clinics and hospitals,
leaving our community hospitals with fewer staff, fewer services and fewer
resources. Without question, this is the privatization of the core services of
our local public hospitals.  

There is another option. Virtually every community hospital in Ontario has
operating rooms that are closed down in evenings, on weekends, for weeks or
months each year or even permanently. We have the operating rooms. Our public
hospitals simply do not have the funding and support to staff them. Ontario is
dead last in Canada in funding our public hospitals. We have the lowest funding
of any province in the country and the fewest nurses per patient anywhere in
Canada. Even if our government funded our hospitals to the average of the rest
of Canada, we would clear the backlogs and wait lists for surgeries and
diagnostic tests in our local public hospitals.

We are organizing a citizen-led community opinion vote, like a public referendum
at the end of May. We are asking Ontarians to vote whether or not they want our
local public hospitals’ services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and
clinics. The referendum will be held in community voting stations, at tables
staffed by volunteers outside -- or if appropriate inside -- local businesses,
coffee shops, busy stores, service clubs, places of worship, legions and as many
places as possible, measuring public opinion on the plan to cut and privatize
our local public hospitals’ services.

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