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By\u00a0Jacquelyn LeBel<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0POLITICS\u00a0<\/a>| Posted:\u00a0April 29, 2019<\/span>\u00a04:21 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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The front entrance of Ontario’s Legislative Building at Queen’s Park. Credit:\u00a0Nick Westoll \/ File \/ Global News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ontario Health Coalition says it\u2019s ready to defend public and non-profit health care and is hoping to send a message to the Progressive Conservative government.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hanks with the London Health Coalition said roughly 150 buses from across the province, including two from London, will be heading to Queen\u2019s Park on Tuesday to protest cuts to health care and the potential for privatization.<\/p>\n

Hanks referenced changes to the province\u2019s\u00a0paramedic services<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0cuts to public health<\/a><\/span>, and\u00a0the merger of LHINs to create a Super Agency<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question you can find efficiencies, but you need to talk to the people on the front lines,\u201d Hanks argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ontario Chamber of Commerce did a report, they want health care open for business. They want to use health care as a $52-billion driver of the Ontario economy and now people from that organization are on the health care board\u2026 It\u2019s just like [Doug Ford] is handing it over to the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

WATCH: Toronto Public Health speaks out against planned health care cuts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2017 report<\/a><\/span>, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) stated that it believes \u201cthe private sector has a role to play alongside a robust and sustainable public health care system\u201d and that the health care system can become \u201can economic driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two buses from London will leave from Masonville Mall at 8:30 Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re almost full but we\u2019ll take anybody, we\u2019ll figure out a way to get you down there if you want to go. Just call me at 226-448-3067,\u201d said Hanks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just begging people, everyone in Ontario needs to stand up and say no to this because we know what American-style health care is like: the rich get to go to the front of the line and the rest of us wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Premier Doug Ford has\u00a0previously stated<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>that changes to healthcare in Ontario will result in management-level job losses but that front-line jobs would be protected.<\/p>\n

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