<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------------------------------</div></div><div class=""><b class="">March 26th - Waterloo Health Coalition Event - Kitchener City Hall 7:00pm</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">The language contained in the Bill 74, in particular Schedule 1 (see URL), is what is actually most important not the euphemistic words used by the Ford administration that we are all tired of hearing...streamlined, efficiency, innovation...(think funding cuts)... when they describe Bill 74! This is the dismantling of Public Health Care in Ontario:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-74" class="">https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-42/session-1/bill-74</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class="">This is a radical piece of legislation. It is an omnibus bill and it amends or repeals dozens of other health care Acts. Fundamentally, it sets up a new Super Agency and gives the power to the Minister of Health to merge a range of existing health care oversight agencies into it. Then it gives the new Super Agency extraordinary powers to order, negotiate, facilitate and coerce (through funding measures) mergers, amalgamations, service transfers, closures etc. It gives the Minister sweeping new powers to order mergers, closures, service transfers, etc. These powers include new powers to privatize entire sections of health care services. The public interest protections that we won, largely through amendments to the LHIN legislation, have all been removed. There will be no open Board meetings, no right to access documents, no appeals etc. The Super Agency is to be made up of political appointees. The new powers override the existing democratic structures of local community, public and non-profit health care providers. All health service providers, integrated conglomerates, the Super Agency are required to find endless </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class="">integrations</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class="">” – </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class="">defined as service transfers, mergers, closures, partnerships etc. This is a very very large health restructuring bill with no democratic process, no democratic protections and will result total loss of any remaining local community control over health care. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri,Italic";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>