{"id":20466,"date":"2022-11-04T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:57:31","slug":"demonstration-targets-mpp-funding-for-private-health-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/demonstration-targets-mpp-funding-for-private-health-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration targets MPP, funding for private health clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(November 3, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>By: Tyler Kula, The Observer<\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header\" aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<figure class=\"featured-image\" data-aqa=\"featured-image\"><picture class=\"featured-image__ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured-image__image type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nexus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/so.1104-so-coalition.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;h=216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nexus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/so.1104-so-coalition.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;h=216,\n                    https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nexus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/so.1104-so-coalition.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;h=432 2x\" alt=\"Shirley Roebuck with the Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition organized a demonstration Thursday outside Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey's office in Point Edward. (Tyler Kula\/ The Observer)\" width=\"372\" height=\"279\" \/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"featured-image__caption image-caption\"><em><span class=\"caption\">Shirley Roebuck with the Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition organized a demonstration Thursday outside Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey&#8217;s office in Point Edward. (Tyler Kula\/ The Observer)<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">Sarnia-Lambton\u2019s MPP was under fire Thursday from the local health coalition chapter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here today to make sure that the people of Sarnia-Lambton know that not only did Bob Bailey tell things to the press that were not true, but we\u2019re here to say that we want public health care,\u201d said Shirley Roebuck, the chair of the Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not interested in privatizing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the latest in a series of Ontario Health Coalition events blasting the Doug Ford Progressive Conservatives for repeatedly claiming before June\u2019s election there would be no privatization of the provincial health-care system and then announcing in August that it would increase the number of surgeries performed at independent health clinics.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">Details 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&quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/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\/&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\">health coalition briefing note<\/a><\/span>\u00a0late last month, when other health coalition chapters held similar demonstrations elsewhere in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Sarnia\u2019s event waited until Thursday because of people\u2019s availability, Roebuck said.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of nearly 20, including members of the coalition chapter, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Unifor, gathered on the sidewalk outside Bailey\u2019s Point Edward office early in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the truth,\u201d Roebuck said about the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the public, who were told that there would not be any privatization of our health care are now going to be paying for private, for-profit surgical clinics,\u201d she said, noting none are in Sarnia-Lambton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will only be in large cities because there\u2019s more opportunity for profit,\u201d she said, as a motorist passed honking.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">Bailey, meanwhile, was targeted by Roebuck for comments the Conservative member made during an\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/local-news\/election-candidates-for-sarnia-lambton-talk-healthcare\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;all-candidates meeting in May&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/local-news\/election-candidates-for-sarnia-lambton-talk-healthcare&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\">all-candidates meeting in May<\/a>,<\/span> during the lead-up to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/ontario-election\/bailey-wins-a-fifth-term-at-queens-park\/wcm\/8ecbb453-15ac-4987-8680-145e810f5977\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;winning his fifth term&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/ontario-election\/bailey-wins-a-fifth-term-at-queens-park\/wcm\/8ecbb453-15ac-4987-8680-145e810f5977&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\">winning his fifth term<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to put to rest this notion by, oh I won\u2019t say who, but a certain coalition that\u2019s going around saying that we\u2019re going to privatize health care,\u201d Bailey said at the time to a gathering at the Sarnia Golf and Curling Club. \u201cThere couldn\u2019t be anything further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">The health coalition chapter had earlier in the spring been part of a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/local-news\/coalition-eyeing-healthcare-spending-as-an-election-issue\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;campaign of \\u201cemergency summits\\u201d&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/local-news\/coalition-eyeing-healthcare-spending-as-an-election-issue&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\">campaign of \u201cemergency summits\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>warning about potential health-care privatization and critiquing government decisions like the call to award the majority of 30,000 long-term care beds pledged over a decade to for-profit homes, a segment of the sector that saw the highest COVID-19 death toll among residents.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">Asked for comment about Thursday\u2019s demonstration, and again in the wake of Roebuck\u2019s criticism, Bailey\u2019s office released a statement identical to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamthisweek.com\/news\/local-news\/no-mandate-for-provinces-greater-use-of-private-clinics-health-coalition-2\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: 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systems in the world, and to support this our government has invested $77.5 billion this year to continue to provide Ontarians with the care they need when they need it. We are working with all our health-care partners to identify innovative solutions to surgical recovery like expanding funding for procedures performed on evenings and weekends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese (independent) facilities already perform publicly (OHIP) funded procedures and will ensure patients have access to the health care they need and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roebuck said she\u2019s also concerned about other legislation from the current government that limits wage increases to public-sector workers and has been criticized as exacerbating a provincial nursing shortage, as well as a bill imposing contracts on unionized education workers, including pre-emptively using the notwithstanding clause to quash any Charter challenge.<\/p>\n<p>A strike by education workers is still expected Friday, as is another demonstration outside Bailey\u2019s office in Point Edward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you say you respect public workers when you\u2019re not giving them what they\u2019re due?\u201d asked Roebuck, encouraging people to contact Bailey\u2019s office to call for change.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Stelpstra, who ran against Bailey as the NDP candidate in Sarnia-Lambton this spring, was one of the demonstrators Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw what happened in the election, but I think it\u2019s important in between election cycles to show people that people still really care about this stuff, and this stuff really matters,\u201d he said, noting he wasn\u2019t affiliated with any groups represented at the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a really good way to stay visible and stay in people\u2019s minds, and it shows people we\u2019re together on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/news\/local-news\/demonstration-targets-mpp-funding-for-private-health-clinics\">Click here for original article\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(November 3, 2022) By: Tyler Kula, The Observer Shirley Roebuck with the Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition organized a demonstration Thursday outside Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey&#8217;s office in Point Edward. 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