The anti-for-profit health care coalition puts it to a vote
‘You don’t want to have to call your ER and see if it’s open,’ says the co-chair of Guelph and District Health Coalition
Residents throughout Ontario, including Guelph and Wellington, had an opportunity to unofficially weigh in on the provincial government’s health care privatization efforts, courtesy of a “community opinion vote” headed up by the Ontario Health Coalition.
An online poll ran for about a week, leading up to in-person ballots being cast at numerous locations on Friday and Saturday.
“The goal is to give Ontarians an opportunity to voice their opinion on whether or not they want our hospitals to be privatized,” said Brit Hancock, co-chair of the Guelph and District Health Coalition, noting privatization plans weren’t part of the Progressive Conservative Party’s re-election platform ahead of last year’s election. “They really have no mandate to be doing this.”
Using its legislative majority, the provincial government officially passed Bill