(July 22, 2025) By: Mauricio Prado, MyMuskokaNow<\/p>\n
More than a hundred healthcare workers and advocates gathered outside the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville on July 22 to protest the privatization of healthcare across Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n The local resort is where Canada\u2019s 13 Premiers and the Prime Minister are hosting the Council of the Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n Jason MacLean, chair of the Canadian Health Coalition, said they want to get the attention of the provincial and federal governments, as all provinces are in a \u201chealthcare crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWithout a healthy population, we\u2019re never going to have a healthy economy,\u201d said MacLean. \u201cWhat we\u2019re really trying to put through to everybody is that we need universally accessible, publicly funded, publicly delivered health care. And that\u2019s what\u2019s needed here in Canada today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to MacLean, over half of the surgeries in Ontario right now are being performed at private care clinics.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt makes a weaker public sector and public services that are going forward are stopping because everybody\u2019s going to the private healthcare,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition, said they do not want Canada to succumb to the pressures of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe forge our new national identity in this international crisis. We have to forge a new national identity in keeping with our core values as Canadians,\u201d said Mehra.<\/span><\/p>\n Erin Ariss, registered nurse and president of the Ontario Nurses Association, said the current working conditions of healthcare workers are a direct result of the Ford government and their conservative cuts and privatization.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSince Ford became the premier in 2018, he has underfunded and cut every sector of health care in Ontario, and that\u2019s a shame,\u201d said Ariss.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n She said Ford is spending their public dollars on 900 new private clinics and paying private for-profit staffing agencies\u00a0billions of dollars instead of retaining and recruiting front-line staff.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHealthcare is a basic human right,\u201d she said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Click here for the original article<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (July 22, 2025) By: Mauricio Prado, MyMuskokaNow More than a hundred healthcare workers and advocates gathered outside the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville on July 22 to protest the privatization of healthcare across Canada. The local resort is where Canada\u2019s 13 Premiers and the Prime Minister are hosting the Council of the Federation. Jason MacLean, chair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\n