Ontario NDP Leader Making Another Trek To Ravaged Fort Erie Hospital Site

By Doug Draper

Andrea Horwath will be the first leader of Ontario’s three main parties to venture in to Niagara during this provincial election.

The NDP leader will be making a stop this Saturday, September 24 that has almost become like an old stomping grounds for her – the front of a Douglas Memorial Hospital site in Fort Erie, Ontario that has already been ravaged by cuts in acute care services, including the closing of its emergency room, by the board of the Niagara Health System, with the approval of a Local Health Integration Network both she and Conservative leader Tim Hudak vow to disband if either of their parties form the next provincial government.

Niagara south supporters of preserving acute care hospital service in that part of the region, while the NHS builds its future acute-care hospital palace in an isolated corner of west St. Catharines that just happens to be in a Liberal riding, are already using social media and whatever means they have to encourage as many people as possible to show up at a rally in front of the Fort Erie hospital when Horwath is there.

The NDP leader is expected to arrive at the hospital site this Saturday, September 24 at 12:30 p.m.