Ontario Health Coalition – Federal-Provincial Relations

For a hard copy of any report or document please contact the OHC

Resource Pages

First Ministers' Conference on Health Care (2004)

First Ministers' Agreement The OHC has prepared an outline of the First Ministers' Deal on Healthcare.
Please click here. (September 16, 2004)
First Ministers' Conference - The OHC is on the watch while the PM and provincial premiers meet to discuss health care (September 13-15).
Please click here for information on Citizens Watch groups meeting across Ontario to discuss and analyze the conference as it occurs.
Please click here for regular updates, photos and other resources from the Public Health Care Response Centre which OHC is participating in.
Please click here for the OHC and OFL's update released the morning of Tuesday September 14.
Please click here for the OHC and OFL's update released the evening of Tuesday September 14.
Please click here for an Action Alert - contact Prime Minister Martin and Health Minister Donsanjh with an important message.
Please click here for an Action Alert - contact Premier McGuinty and remind him of what the public demands of him on health care.

Reports & Letters Regarding Federal-Provincial Relations

Plan of Action Canadian Health Coalition: Stop two-tier privatization of health service delivery .
MS WORD
Briefing Note Pharmacare in the Public Interest
MS WORD(August, 2004)
Briefing Note Canadian Health Coalition: Medicare is sustainable, for-profit care is not.
MS WORD(May 14, 2004)
Open letter to Anne McLellan on the proposed National Health Council (July 10, 2003)
Analysis of the First Minister's Health Accord (February 11, 2003)
Letter to Chretien - Re: First Ministers' Meeting health care proposals (September 8, 2000)
Letter to Chretien - Re: Alberta proposals to contract with for-profit hospitals (February 3, 2000)
The Pulse - January 2002 - National Medicare Update: Provinces Threaten Feds (January 2000)

Media Releases Regarding Federal-Provincial Relations

22 April 2003 - Media Briefing Note on For-Profit MRI/CT Clinics
28 March 2003 - Where's It Going? Ontario Health Coalition Responds to Budget
4 February 2003 - Eves guilty of hidden money, misspending: Ontario Health Coalition
4 September 2002 - Media Release: Banff Health Minister's Meeting
11 September 2000 - Slamming Ontario's Medicare Record, Coalition Calls For Decisive Federal Action
10 May 2000 - PM blasted for inaction on Alberta private hospitals' legislation
6 March 2000 - Demonstration in Toronto at Allan Rock's office part of coast-to-coast action to preserve Medicare