(September 26, 2025) By: Staff, The Sun Times<\/p>\n
Owen Sound\u2019s city hall will be the setting for an Ontario Health Coalition protest on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The local Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) contingent will gather at the municipal office (808 2nd Ave. E.) at 11 a.m. on Sept. 27 to protest the Ford government\u2019s move to privatize healthcare, according to OHC executive director Natalie Mehra.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ford government is privatizing our public hospitals in a move that is costing patients thousands of dollars and taking away from our local public hospital services. Everyone\u2019s help is needed to pressure them to stop it,\u201d Mehra said in a statement.<\/p>\n
There will also be an OHC protest at Kincardine\u2019s Davidson Park beginning at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Brenda Scott is the local organizer for both the Owen Sound and Kincardine OHC protests. To reach Scott, email greybrucehc@gmail.com, or call 519-375-5812.<\/p>\n
Protests are scheduled to take place across the province on Saturday, including in the GTA, London, Hamilton, Kitchener, Tavistock, Sarnia, and other areas.<\/p>\n
The OHC stated that this past spring, they submitted a formal complaint to the Ford government, providing details and proof of payment from 50 patients who had been charged illegally and unethically in private clinics. The Ford government has neither required reimbursement from the patients nor stopped the clinics, according to the OHC.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardship caused by these user charges in the private clinics is exactly what the Canada Health Act and Ontario\u2019s Public Medicare laws were set up to prohibit,\u201d said Mehra. \u201cWe have held press conferences with patients who have been extra-billed, written letters, asked for meetings with the minister and premier. They know this is happening, but unless public pressure gets strong enough, they are not only failing to stop it, they are going to expand it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ontario Health Coalition is a network of patient advocates and public interest groups representing over three-quarters of a million Ontarians and more than 500 organizations concerned about protecting and improving public healthcare.<\/p>\n
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