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  • Contact Information for Members of Provincial Parliament.
    Please click here to find out which provincial riding you live in.
    Please click here to find out which MPP represents your riding.
    Please click here to find out how to contact your MPP.


    • PROVINCIAL ELECTION 2007

  • MEDIA RELEASE
    Approaching $1 Billion in Cost Overruns at Privatized P3 Hospitals: Coalition Demands Audit, Moratorium on P3 Privatization
          PDF     (October 5, 2007)

  • PRIVATE CLINIC REPORT
    Damning evidence from Ontario's for-profit clinics issued in light of John Tory's campaign to open the gates to US style for-profit clinics and hospitals.
          MEDIA RELEASE (PDF)       FULL REPORT (PDF)     (October 1, 2007)

  • PLATFORM REVIEW
    A review of the major party platforms on healthcare.
          PDF

  • HOW WOULD YOU VOTE?
    Compare your stand on various health care issues with the parties.
          PDF

  • QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES
    For all-candidates meetings and one-on-one with politicians seeking your vote:
          PDF

  • THE PULSE: SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION
    Includes comparison of party platforms, questions for candidates, key issues in health care and information on private hospitals
          PAGE 1      PAGE 2

  • RIBBON CAMPAIGN: 7 COMMITMENTS FOR CANDIDATES
    Leading into the election, help show our elected officials that we're voting for public non-profit health care. Tie a "VOTE MEDICARE: HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT" ribbon around your tree, porch, house, door, car or even around your waist. Email us at ohc@sympatico.ca or phone us at 416-441-2502 for your ribbon!
    VOTE MEDICARE: HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT
    VOTE MEDICARE: HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT

    Ask candidates to support these commitments:           PDF
    JOHN TORY AND PRIVATIZED HOSPITALS & CLINICS

  • PRIVATE CLINIC REPORT
    Damning evidence from Ontario's for-profit clinics issued in light of John Tory's campaign to open the gates to US style for-profit clinics and hospitals.
          MEDIA RELEASE (PDF)       FULL REPORT (PDF)     (October 1, 2007)

  • MEDIA RELEASE: TROJAN HORSE OF PRIVATIZATION DOGS TORY ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL
    John Tory's promotion of for-profit clinics threatens local public hospitals
          PDF     (September 20, 2007)



    "BEWARE John Tory's Private Health Care Plan!" reads the sign
    on a Giant Trojan Horse trailing John Tory as he canvasses voters in a downtown Toronto riding.


  • MEDIA RELEASE: PRIVATE CLINICS WILL IMPERIL LOCAL HOSPITALS
    Coalition accuses Tory of pandering to business interests at the expense of the public hospital system
          PDF     (September 19, 2007)

  • FACT SHEET: WHY NOT PRIVATIZE?
    International Evidence On For-Profit Hospital Clinics
          PDF     (September 19, 2007)

  • MEDIA RELEASE: TORY'S HEALTH PLATFORM
    Tory's Health Platform A Recipe for Privatization
          PDF     (May 24, 2007)

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  • MEDIA RELEASE and MEDIA BACKGROUNDER: PRIVATE CLINICS
    MEDIA RELEASE:    Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)
    MEDIA BACKGROUNDER Evidence from the system-wide experiment in Britain and some Quick Facts
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)

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  • URGENT ALERT: PRIVATE CLINIC'S MISLEADING CAMPAIGN TO PRIVATIZE HEALTH SYSTEM
    Alert all supporters and friends!
          PDF     (March 22, 2007)

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  • Health Minister George Smitherman's Speaking Notes from a speech at St. Lawrence Market announcing the creation of Local Health Intergration Networks (LHINs).
    Please click here to view as PDF document. (September 9, 2004)


  • Health Minister George Smitherman's Speaking Notes from a speech made to the Ontario Hospital Association.
    Please click here to view. (November 5, 2003)


  • Election 2003 --Vote for Public Healthcare - Medicare at the Crossroads Text of a leaflet OHC activists are distributing throughout Ontario.
    Please click here.


  • OHC's review and analysis of each political party's election platform and the implications for public healthcare.
    Please click here.


  • Health related questions to ask at all-candidates meeting and on the campaign trail
    Please click here.
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