Grey Bruce Health Coalition Heads To Queen’s Park For Healthcare Advocacy

Posted: October 28, 2025

(October 27, 2025) By: Nathan Shubert, Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre

The Grey Bruce Health Coalition is heading down to Queen’s Park this week to advocate for public healthcare.

Coalition Chair Brenda Scott says a group from the area will be joining a larger Ontario health coalition delegation in Toronto for a day of action on Wednesday.

While in Toronto, Scott says she plans to sit in on question period.

“The reason we are going down right now is because of our concern about the increasing privatizing of healthcare under the Ford government. The opposition parties will be asking questions in question period that day about those types of issues and so we will be in the gallery,” says Scott.

Following question period, Scott says they have a press conference scheduled that afternoon in the gallery.

“We will be talking about, province-wide, about our concerns about privatization. Obviously we support public healthcare so we show up anytime we feel that is at risk,” says Scott.

Her primary goal while down in Toronto is to ask the provincial government to stop approving private healthcare facilities that do not meet the terms of the Canada Health Act.

“We have noticed an increase in the number of approvals for private clinics and private hospitals. Of course we should be operating under the Canada Health Act, which guarantees treatment and attention to medically necessary procedures for every Canadian. It shouldn’t be a question of how much money you have in the bank, or how big your pocket book is, everyone should have the same entitlement and that is why we have the Canada Health Act and we are asking the federal government to enforce it.”

Scott says the coalition currently has two petitions, which they aim to send to the federal government to request the enforcement of the Canada Health Act.

The coalition has visited Queen’s Park several times over the last year to speak about rural healthcare.

“I think each time we go, we reach more people. one of the questions is, are the average citizens seeing what we are doing down there, and I think partly when it is covered in the media and I think each time that we go, we have an impact. We will go as many times as it takes to have the full impact that we need to support public healthcare,” says Scott.

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