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If anyone wants to hop on a bus to Toronto for the Sept 25th, first day of Legislature protest against Hospital Privatization, fill the form. <div><br></div><div>Lulu 😊<br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0"><span style="color: #AAAAAA;">Begin forwarded message:</span><br><br>On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 12:56 PM, Ontario Health Coalition via OntarioHealthCoalition <ontariohealthcoalition@list.web.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv8277117245"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center;"><div style=""><br></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><b style="font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Critically Important: </b><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large;font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><u>Everyone is needed</u> to build a mass protest </b><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large;font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">on the opening day of the Legislature</b></div><div style="text-align:center;"><b style="font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">to stop the Ford government's privatization of o</b><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">ur public hospitals.</b></div><div style="text-align:center;"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:docs-Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);"> </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiSK47GNv3_4eg-xMuTWuHFUGUriC7QfgbfSvAMe9hYCX3Q/formResponse">Click here</a><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);"> </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:xx-large;">to sign up to attend/get on buses</span><br></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"> MASS PROTEST <br></div><div><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">OPENING DAY OF THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE</span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:xx-large;">Monday, September 25, 2023 at Noon</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:xx-large;"><br></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);">TORONTO - at Queen's Park outside the Main Legislative Building at Noon</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);">THUNDER BAY - at Mini Queen's Park at South James St. at Noon</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);">DRYDEN - Outside MPP Greg Rickford's office, 439 Government St. at 11:30 a.m. CST (Dryden time)</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);">ALGOMA - Outside the Sault Area Hospital at Lukenda Drive at Noon</span></p><div><br></div><span class="yiv8277117245gmail_signature_prefix">--<span class="yiv8277117245gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0cm;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">NOTE: We are not asking for every town to hold a protest. We are asking for people to join the protests closest to them. Southern Ontario up to Sudbury and North Bay will come to Toronto. The North Shore of Lake Huron and Algoma area will go to Sault Ste. Marie. N/W Ontario will go to Thunder Bay or Dryden. We will livestream each protest to each other. All protests are at noon Toronto time, except Dryden which will be at 11:30 Central Standard Time (Dryden time) which is 12:30 p.m. Toronto time. </p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">Let's make a major show of strength to set the tone for the reopening of the Ontario Legislature.<br></p><div><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">Let's greet the Ford government upon their return and remind them that we are not going away.</p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"> We are unalterably opposed to the privatization of our public hospitals. </p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">We paid for them. We built them. They do not belong to the Ford government to run them into crisis, gut their core services and privatize them. </p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">As the Ontario Legislature re-opens on September 25, let's make it visible and powerful. </p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">Let us build on our extraordinary achievements and make it impossible for the Ford government to carry on unchallenged. </p><p style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);white-space:pre-wrap;"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);white-space:pre-wrap;"><div><b>What are our demands for</b><b style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> the Ford government?</b></div></div></div><p style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin:0cm;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"></p><ul style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal;"><li style="margin-left:15px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><u>Stop the privatization of our public hospitals</u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;">S<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">top <u>creating a crisis</u> in our public hospitals by underfunding them, cutting and closing services, and trying to roll back wages of nurses, health professionals & support staff,</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;">Expand the use of existing ORs in our <u>public</u> hospitals that are closed much of the time due to understaffing and underfunding, and </li><li style="margin-left:15px;">Expand capacity in our <u>public</u> hospitals & restore closed services.</li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><b>There will be a special message and focus about the Ford government enabling the closure of vital services in small, rural and local hospitals across Ontario.</b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><b>Can't make it to the central protest in Toronto?</b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">See the list of four major regional protests in RED above. We are not asking every town to hold a protest. We are building four regional huge protests and asking people to join them. </div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);white-space:pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Why Monday, September 25? </b></div><div style="font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">The Ford government sets the Legislative calendar. The Legislature is closed for summer break and will reconvene on Monday, September 25 as per the decision of the Ford government. We have set the protest for noon so some people may be able to come at lunch time. We are announcing the event months before so people may be able to schedule time off. It is imperative that we be there when the Legislature reopens so that we can set the tone, get the media to tell the story and ensure that the issue of the privatization of Ontario's public hospitals is top and centre on the public agenda for this legislative session. We can't let Ford hope to have people forget over the summer and sweep it under the rug. <br></div><div style="font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div><b>Monday, September 25 is Yom Kippur. </b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;">The Ford government has chosen the date of the re-opening of the Legislature and it falls on Yom Kippur. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;">We asked the Opposition NDP and Liberals to raise this with the Ford government. They told us that they would do so, but it is the ruling party that sets the schedule and they moved the date <u>to</u> Yom Kippur from the week before to accommodate the plowing match. We also raised the issue with key folks in the Jewish community who brought this concern forward to a Toronto group of rabbis. The feedback we got was they are not lobbying to change the date. Since we cannot change the opening day, our plan is to have a speaker from the Jewish community who will walk to and speak at the event, and to host a second protest for those who cannot attend due to the date being on Yom Kippur. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal;">Thus, we will also host a second event for people who are Jewish who cannot attend on the 25th, on Tuesday, September 26 at noon outside the Legislature. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this event and/or attend it, can you please email us with the subject line: "Tues. Sept 26 protest".</span></div></div></div><p style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"><b>What to do next? </b></p><p style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal">If you are interested in attending a Mass Protest on Monday, September 25, Please let us know. <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeiSK47GNv3_4eg-xMuTWuHFUGUriC7QfgbfSvAMe9hYCX3Q/formResponse">Click here</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0);"> </span>to sign up to attend and/or to get on a bus.<br></p><div><br></div><b>Do you have an <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">idea or suggestion to make this protest the biggest show of strength that it can possibly be?</span></b></div><div>Please share! Ultimately, it <u>will</u> be politically impossible for the Ford government to continue to privatize our public hospitals' services against the will of the vast majority of Ontarians. Let us make that happen sooner than later because every service we lose is extremely hard to get back. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;">As the Ontario Legislature re-opens in the fall, let's make it visible and powerful. Let us build on our extraordinary achievements and make it impossible for the Ford government to carry on unchallenged.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Mark off Monday September 25th on your calendar! </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>We will look forward to seeing you there.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial, sans-serif;">Ontario Health Coalition Team </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span><p style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);" class="yiv8277117245MsoNormal"> </p></div><span class="yiv8277117245gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="yiv8277117245gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr">We are proud of the difference
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