Niagara Citizens are urged to hop on the bus and join Ontarians travelling in from dozens of communities across the province to let the Ford government know that enough is enough!
Buses will be leaving Niagara at 9:00 a.m. at the Welland Market, 9:30 a.m. at the St. Catharines Go Bus Station ( Fairview Mall) and at 10:00 a.m. Grimsby go station ( Casablanca and South Service Road).
To Reserve a Seat on a Niagara bus heading to the Queen’s Park Rally, please email niagarahealthcoalition@yahoo.ca
A Call-Out from the Ontario Health Coalition and the Niagara Health Coalition, a citizens advocacy network fighting to save quality public health care in Ontario
Posted April 26th, 2019 on Niagara At Large
Toronto – It is shaping up to be one of the largest public rallies at Queen’s Park since the Ford government took power.
It will be held next Tuesday, April 30 at Queen’s Park.
Ontarians from towns and cities across the province are heading to the Ontario Legislature to stop health care cuts, privatization and mega-mergers that threaten care.
Patients have been contacting OHC offices and local coalitions in record numbers, concerned about half-a-billion dollars in leaked OHIP cuts impacting diabetes and pain management services, colonoscopies and other services that are a lifeline for many.
At the protest will be cancer survivors’ networks concerned about the dismantling of Cancer Care Ontario, chronic pain patients frightened about closed pain clinics and cuts to pain shots, Crohns and Colitis patients concerned about cuts to colonoscopy and other services, diabetes patients and care workers concerned about proposed cuts to diabetes management, parents and workers concerned about autism cuts and privatization.
There will also be Municipal Councillors concerned about deep cuts to Public Health Units, health care unions concerned about cuts and protecting public medicare.
And there will be paramedics concerned about the dismantling of local ambulance services, hospital workers, nurses, doctors, local health coalitions and “save our hospital” groups concerned about massive restructuring and privatization, organ donation recipients concerned about the dismantling of the Trillium organ donation system, long-term care family councils concerned about declining care levels, patient advocates, and many many others.
They are flying and busing in to Toronto from as far away as Thunder Bay and Kenora. Thousands are expected to join them from the City of Toronto.
The Ontario Health Coalition is on its highest alert, building a mass movement and readying itself to defend public and non-profit health care services from for-profit privatization, stop cuts and closures of local hospitals and care services in the light of plans to force all health care services into mega-mergers, and stop draconian budget cuts to services. Virtually every day new health care cuts and privatization plans are announced or leaked.
The Ford government has no mandate for any of this, having promised to improve health care, not engage in the most radical restructuring and cuts to local services our province has ever seen.
Find contact information for reserving a seat on a bus heading to the rally from Niagara and other regions of the provincebelow – 
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