Council endorsed a petition received from the newly formed Ontarians Seeking Equal Cancer Care (O-SECC) directed to the Ontario Legislature.

In the letter, the chair Gerry Lougheed stated the Ontario Government decided to fully fund all the expenses of Southern cancer patients on a referral list through Cancer Care Ontario.

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“When they established this new precedent for cancer travel allowances, I asked for equal funding for Northen cancer patients. This request has fallen on deaf ears in Queen’s Park.”

He continued to advise council in his letter the discriminatory policy of funding southern patients and their travel, food and accommodation, and even companion expenses while Northern Ontario patients receive $0.305 a kilometre one way (or their gas money) continues.

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