Fill the Ontario Legislature
The situation is extremely urgent
Come to the Ontario Legislature
At stake is our single tier public medicare & the services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don’t let Ford destroy them.
We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests to become normalized. We are on the cusp of it now. If we don’t fight back we are going to lose public medicare.
Please spread the word. Please come out if you can and if you do not live close to Toronto, please host a Legislature Watch event in your community and invite the media. Speak out. Do everything you can to pour on the pressure.
For more information, please read the full article at this link: https://armch12osstf.ca/items-of-interest/ontario-health-coalition-fill-the-ontario-legislature-oct-29/
Wednesday, October 29 Itinerary
- 9:00 a.m. Arrive at Queen’s Park security (or as soon after 9 a.m. as you can)
- 9 – 9:30 a.m. Start to go through security to fill the Public Galleries in the Legislature
- 10:00 a.m. Fill the Public Galleries.
- We will be welcomed in the Legislature by various political parties and MPPs.
- Watch Question Period where the Premier and Health Minister will have to answer questions from the Opposition Parties about what they are doing
- 12:00 p.m. Lunch
- 1:00 p.m. Press conference in the media studio of the Legislature
- 2:00 p.m. We will be finished and ready to leave at this time
Please RSVP as soon as possible
Planning to attend? Please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing back in response to this email (to info@OntarioHC.ca) with your name and the town/city you are from. If you are carpooling, please send us the names and towns of anyone else who is attending. This information is a requirement for Queen’s Park security and they need at least 24 hours notice, so please RSVP by Monday, October 27 at 12 p.m. noon. We also need this information so you can be welcomed from the floor of the Legislature.
Organize a Legislature Watch event that day in your town: If you live too far away from Toronto to attend and can organize a Legislature Watch event, please email us and let us know. What this involves: invite a group to meet at someone’s house or in a community venue and watch the Legislature through the link on the Legislative Assembly website (click on “Live House Video” when the Legislature starts at 10 a.m. on Oct. 29 here. Question Period will start between 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. You can also watch the video of our press conference at 1 p.m. here.) We will send you more information if you let us know you are organizing a Legislature Watch. Invite the media to come and those of you in attendance can provide comment and a local perspective, helping us to raise the alarm and mount public pressure to stop this privatization.
If you can’t come but are going to watch on the Legislative Assembly website on your own, please also RSVP but specify that you will be joining virtually and we will send you the links to the livestream of Question Period and the press conference. If you send us your name and town, we will arrange to have your virtual presence recognized also.
Please note: it is much more powerful if people can come in person and we have a LOT of people in the Legislature that day! So, please do come in person if you can.
Directions
By public transit: go to Queen’s Park station on the Line 1 Yonge-University subway line.
By road: There is street parking on Hoskins Ave. near Queen’s Park Circle. There is also parking on Grosvenor Street near Queen’s Park Circle. Joining Grosvenor, there is street parking on Surrey Place and Grenville Street and also a parking lot at Women’s College Hospital and a parking building almost next door to the east of it. There are also parking lots behind Mount Sinai Hospital, an underground at University Health Network (Toronto General Hospital/Peter Munk Cardiac Centre) and on Elizabeth Street behind Toronto General Hospital/the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre.
OHC EMAIL ADDRESS – info@OntarioHC.ca
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