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“Absolutely not”: Health Minister rejects claims Ontario has entered a two-tier health-care system

Posted: May 29, 2026

(May 29, 2026) By: Tina Yazdani, The Trillium (behind a paywall)

quote from the article:

Natalie Mehra, the coalition’s executive director, said the Ford government has allowed dozens of new privately owned clinics to open in the past year, “some of which are quasi-hospitals.”

“They’re set up to expand into full private hospitals. They’ve got multiple operating theatres, they’ve got diagnostic suites, it’s the full-scale privatization of our public hospitals now unless we actually stop it,” Mehra added.

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