Only Nine Days Left To Get As Many Signatures As Possible
A Call-Out from the Ontario Health Coalition, a non-profit citizens organization advocating for quality public health care across the province
Posted January 8th, 2026 on Niagara At Large
Canadian public health care is in an existential threat because of Alberta’s new law that violates the Canada Health Act and brings in U.S. style private (for-profit) health insurance.
In Ontario, public hospitals are under existential threat by the Ford government that is forcing cuts and closures to them while shifting more than $300 million to open new for-profit clinics to take over their core services.
In these for-profit clinics, elderly patients are routinely charged thousands of dollars when they go in for care.
We only have 9 days left to get as many signatures as possible on our online petition to the House of Commons. We demand that the federal government enforce the Canada Health Act in Ontario where the Ford government is violating it with their private clinics.
Every signature counts. Please help make this a strong petition.
We currently have about 10,000 signatures, but that is nowhere near enough. Have you signed? Have you asked your neighbours, your family, your colleagues?
Please help make this a strong petition that gets the attention of the federal and provincial governments because of the sheer number of people who have signed it. Please help us not to fail in this endeavour.
To make sure your signature is counted, please open the email that the House of Commons sends you after signing the petition. Then, click on the blue text that says “Please confirm your support to complete the process.” It is easy and only takes a few minutes.
Click here to sign & share the petition online now – https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-6811
About the Ontario Health Coalition Mission & Mandate – Our primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system. We work to honour and strengthen the principles of the Canada Health Act. We are led by our shared commitment to core values of equality, democracy, social inclusion and social justice; and by the five principles of the Act: universality; comprehensiveness; portability; accessibility and public administration. We are a non-partisan public interest activist coalition and network.
To Learn more about the work of the Ontario Health Coalition and how you can support it, click on – https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/
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