EVENTS: Town Halls Across Ontario To Fight For Public Health Care

Posted: October 27, 2026

(October 27, 2026)

There’s no time to lose! Either we all fight for public health care now, or it’ll be gone.

Alberta has passed dangerous new legislation that ends universal public health care in Alberta & threatens it across Canada. It allows private clinics to charge patients for surgeries & tests, enables the wealthy to skip the queue & pressures everyone else to pay, wait longer, or go without. It’s not an abstract threat. Alberta started enacting the law October 1. We need to mount enough public & political pressure to stop them.

While not quite as draconian as Alberta’s new law, Ontario & Quebec patients also face user fees for needed health care that should never be allowed under the Canada Health Act. In Ontario, the Ford government has deliberately chosen to set funding rates for our public hospitals at lower than they need to maintain existing services to force them into deficit. It is requiring them to make cuts to eliminate their deficits. At the same time, it is shunting literally hundreds of millions in public money over to private/for-profit clinics to privatize their services. They are allowing privatization of primary care with pay-your-way nurse practitioner clinics and online companies.

For the North & rural communities, things are even worse. The private clinics are locating in the largest urban centres, taking funding and services away from those communities.

Both in Ontario and Quebec, the richest patients are buying faster access to care while wait times for the majority are worse & costs are much higher.

These things should NEVER happen under our public medicare laws.

We are slowing them down, dramatically. And when we fightback we are able to stop them, often. But we need to raise our voices now, in no uncertain terms, because the future of our health care is at stake.

Come to our urgent town hall meetings and please share this message widely. The meetings are hybrid, but we are encouraging people to come in-person as there will be lawn signs and other materials. Here are the list of locations and links.

Sault Ste Marie – Tuesday November 3 at 7 pm, Moose Lodge, 543 Trunk Rd, Sault Ste Marie
Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9L4wyv_VR06eyc3v4hWduA

Grey Bruce – Wednesday November 4 at 7 pm, Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre, 1900 3rd Ave E, Owen Sound
Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fhuii7K4SM6s9Q9lK14kqg

Mississauga – Thursday November 5 at 6 pm, Mississauga Valley Community Centre LC Taylor Auditorium, 1275 Mississauga Vly Blvd, Mississauga
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mississauga-health-coalition-town-hall-the-state-of-healthcare-tickets-2003660396182

St Catharines – Thursday November 5 at 6:30 pm, Ruby Carroll Hall, Trillium Church, 415 Linwell Rd, St. Catharines
Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yO4amnbqQbeecIy_e3yz2A

Welland – Tuesday November 10 at 6:30 pm, LIV Community Room, Welland Arena, 501 King St, Welland
Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MYluuVPRSvG9aQPgXrXKKw

London – Tuesday November 10 at 7 pm, Landon Branch Library London Public Library, 167 Wortley Rd, London
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8pVGktogS0qhNI1wSgUL0w

Waterloo – Wednesday November 11 at 6:30 pm, Waterloo Public Library, 35 Albert St., Waterloo
Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4nYBDiSnTzqyBV9FLaQ7BA

Grimsby – Friday November 13 at 6:30 pm, Major Refrigeration Peach King Centre, Multi-purpose community room, 162 Livingston Ave, Grimsby
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yfueoYTOTsWhw8phc-m7Pw