PRIVATIZATION EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Privatization Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

RELEASE & REPORT: Ford must answer for poor hospital privatization track record over last five years: New report tracks town-by-town how the privatization scheme has created new inequalities, delays, higher costs and wasted local public hospitals’ resources (9/15/2026)

RELEASE: Revelations of Grifols’ non-compliance rate must result in end of contract: Ford government must comply with Voluntary Blood Donations Act & end for-profit/paid plasma (3/31/2026)

RELEASE: Health Coalition demands disclosures & end to Grifols’ for-profit blood plasma contract following reports of deaths, harm, non-compliance (3/13/2026)

RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Slam Ford Government for Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit (12/11/2025)

RELEASE: Patients demand Ford government reimburse wrongful charges at Ford’s private clinics: more than 160 people join Day of Action at Ontario Legislature (10/29/2025)

ADVISORY: Protests Against Ford Government’s Expanding Hospital Privatization Plans (9/22/2025)

RELEASE: Health Coalition responds to shocking attack, calls on Health Minister to desist & instead answer for non-action on private clinics with the gravitas the issue deserves (6/26/2025)

RELEASE: Patient Advocates File Formal Complaints from 50 Patients, Call for Urgent Action to Stop Illegal Fees in Private Clinics (6/17/2025)

RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics (4/16/2024)

RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics (3/8/2024)

RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (2/21/2024)

RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (2/15/2024)

RELEASE: Ford Government Expanded For-Profit Hospital in Violation of the Law and While Lying to the Public: Health Coalition and Democracy Watch Call for Concrete Measures to Protect the Public Interest in Wake of Revelations about Former Health Minister Lobbying for For-Profit Hospital (11/20/2023)

REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (11/2/2023)

RELEASE: More than 400,000 Ontarians vote to stop the privatization of Ontario’s public hospitals: Health Coalition announces results of Huge People’s Referendum (5/31/2023)

RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Patients Who Have Been Extra-Billed Thousands of Dollars in Ontario Private Clinics Join Advocates to Call Out Ford Government’s False Claims (2/27/2023)

RELEASE: Calling Ford’s plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital surgeries a “fatal threat” and a “terrible blow” to our public hospitals, health advocates vow major fightback (1/16/2023)

RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (10/26/2022)

RELEASE: Health Coalitions denounce for-profit deal by Canadian Blood Services that endangers Canada’s Blood Supply (9/20/2022)

FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals (8/19/2022)

RELEASE: Ontario Election Health Care Primer: Health Coalition Brings Warning and Outlines Key Issues as the Writ Drops (5/5/2022)

RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario (3/30/2022)

FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (3/8/2022)

RELEASE: Ford Government is Awarding Thousands of Long-Term Care Beds to For-Profit Chains with Ghastly Records of Death and Suffering: New Coalition Report (11/29/2021)

RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (3/24/2021)

RELEASE: Health Coalitions Call for Increased Federal Health Care Funding and Accountability (12/10/2020)

RELEASE: Throne Speech: Premiers Should Not Play Partisan Politics with Health Care; Concrete Commitments Needed From Provincial & Federal Governments (9/29/2020)

RELEASE: Victory for Patients Over Private Clinics in B.C. Court Challenge: Historic Victory Against Profit-Driven Health Care (9/10/2020)

RELEASE: Ford’s ambulance and public health cuts and restructuring come with high costs, reduced services: Coalition warns (4/18/2019)

RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)

VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization (3/27/2019)

RELEASE: Ford Government is Steamrolling Health Restructuring Law Through in “Outrageously Undemocratic” Process Warns Health Coalition: Local Services at Risk (3/18/2019)

RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (2/11/2019)

RELEASE: Leaked Draft Health Care Legislation a “Gargantuan Nightmare Scenario”: Community and Labour Groups Join Forces for Major Fightback (2/1/2019)

RELEASE: Thousands Demand Doug Ford Disavow Health Care Privatization and Cuts – Other Political Parties Respond Positively to Coalition’s Demand for Services to be Rebuilt & Restored (10/23/2018)

RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (6/4/2018)

RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (6/3/2018)

RELEASE: Provincial Election Discussion Should be About Rebuilding Public Hospitals & Long-Term Care Not “Efficiencies” or “Lean” or Code Words for Cuts: Health Coalition Calls for Concrete Commitments to Redress the Crisis in Access to Care (5/16/2018)

RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (4/13/2018)

RELEASE: Public Home Care Would Benefit Ontarians Despite Claims of Vested Interests/For-Profit Home Care Companies: Health Coalition Calls for More Details (11/6/2017)

RELEASE: Wynne Government’s Hospital Bed Announcement a Temporary Band-Aid But Health Coalition Slams Expanding Health Care Privatization (10/23/2017)

RELEASE: Coalition Warns Health Minister: Privatization of Ontario’s Health Systems for Patient Records and Information Will Incite Massive Public Opposition (10/7/2016)

RELEASE: User fees threatened for patients across Canada if court challenge negotiations fail to uphold Medicare (9/29/2014)

RELEASE: More than 80,000 Ontarians Vote to Stop Wynne Government Plan to Cut Local Community Hospitals and Contract Out Care to Private Clinics: Health Care Advocates Call On the Premier and New Health Minister to Stop the Privatization Plan (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: More than 56,000 Ontarians vote to stop the dismantling of community hospitals in volunteer-led referendum: Health Coalition (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: Ontario’s Wynne Government Plans to Bring In Private Clinics: Threatens Non-Profit Community Hospital Care (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: “OHC Austerity Index Part II” details how Hospital Cuts and Privatization Reach New Levels: Coalition Announces “S.O.S.” – Save Our Services – Day of Action (1/25/2013)

RELEASE: McGuinty Warned to Stop Health Care Privatization: OHC Responds to Drummond Commission (12/7/2011)

RELEASE: Coalition Applauds McGuinty Government for Taking Steps to Safeguard Single-Tier Medicare (6/21/2011)

RELEASE: OHC Calls on McGuinty Government to Stop NHS Privatization Plan in Welland (4/28/2011)

RELEASE: OHC Response to Throne Speech: Fears that New Hospital Funding System Threatens Patient Access, Leads to Privatization (3/8/2010)

RELEASE: Documents Revealed Through Freedom of Information Request Show Increasing Privatization and Consolidation of Ontario’s Medical Laboratory Services (10/8/2009)

RELEASE: Tory’s Health Platform: A Recipe For Privatization (5/24/2007)

RELEASE: Legal Challenge to Medicare: Charter Challenge against Medicare in Ontario opportunistic and dishonest (5/2/2007)

RELEASE: Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System (3/22/2007)

RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Slams Private Clinic Proposal & John Tory’s Support for Privatization (3/16/2007)

RELEASE: Health Coalitions Accuse Harper Government of Allowing Privatization and Not Improving the Public System (2/5/2007)

RELEASE: Two-Tier Health Clinic in Kingston Contravenes Law: OHC Calls on Ministry to Take Action (12/12/2006)

RELEASE: Legal Opinion on the Copeman Clinic (1/30/2006)

Toronto Star Editorial: Public health care cheapest and best (12/22/2005)

Up to 23 New Hospitals to Be Privatized Under Government’s 5-Year Infrastructure Plan: Coalition Launches Major Plebiscite to Keep Hospitals Public (5/25/2005)

Budget Announcement Outlines Wholesale Hospital Privatization: Health Coalition Outraged at Betrayal (5/11/2005)

Billions in Public Taxes Risked by P3 Hospital Privatization: 100 Failed, Flawed and Abandoned Projects Used to Warn Politicians (4/7/2005)

RELEASE: MRI – CT In-Hospital Investment Applauded by Ontario Health Coalition (2/4/2005)

RELEASE: MRI Buyback A Sound Investment – Health Coalition Slams Tory Hypocricy (7/23/2004)

RELEASE: Coalition says private operator not appropriate for mental health and addictions facility on Queen (9/9/2003)

RELEASE: Profits poached from public health: Ontario government must cancel for-profit MRI and CT clinic, says Ontario Health Coalition (8/6/2003)

RELEASE: For-Profit Hospitals & Clinics threaten the future of Medicare: Ontario Health Coalition Launches Fight Back (3/31/2003)

RELEASE: Coalition casts doubt on Clement’s MRI numbers, calls them “Unbelievable” (2/28/2003)

RELEASE: Eves guilty of hidden money, misspending: Ontario Health Coalition (2/4/2003)

RELEASE: For-Profit MRI & CT Scan Update: Clement says he’s looking at it, Eves says “policy is evolving” (9/25/2002)

RELEASE: For-Profit MRI and CT clinics Slower, More Expensive, More Risky: Report (9/19/2002)

RELEASE: Banff Health Ministers’ Meeting: Minister Clement’s Semantics Disguise Fatal Poison Pill: Health Coalition Warns (9/4/2002)

RELEASE: For-Profit MRIs and CT Scans Extremely Grave Threat: Ontario Health Coalition Warns of Public Response (7/8/2002)

RELEASE: Throne Speech – Tories still stuck in privatization rut (5/10/2002)

RELEASE: What Doesn’t the CD Howe Institute Understand About Who Pays for Health Costs? (5/1/2002)

RELEASE: End Botched Cancer Care Privatization Now! (12/13/2001)

RELEASE: Senate Report Fatally Biased (10/29/2001)

RELEASE: US and Canadian Activists Target Health Privateers (8/9/2001)

RELEASE: More than $190,000 in political donations from another big winner in Harris health policy (3/21/2001)

RELEASE: Health Care Watchdog Slams Privatization of Cancer Treatment in Ontario (2/19/2001)

RELEASE: Telehealth Launch a Milestone in Privatization Agenda (2/15/2001)

RELEASE: Community Activists Come Together in Sudbury to Form Local Health Coalition and Organize Public Forum on Privatization (3/20/2000)

RELEASE: Witmer’s Home Care Policies Forcing Privatization (1/24/2000)

RELEASE: Tory Support for Private, For-Profit Sector Increasing Cost of Health Care (1/10/2000)

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