The Ontario Health Coalition, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions-CUPE, along with a professor emerita from the University of Newcastle are urging Ontarians to vote against the privatization of hospital surgeries.

In June, the Doug Ford government announced that it would be adding more than $155 million to help fund private health-care clinics throughout the province to help increase access to care, a move that Allyson Pollock, a professor at Newcastle University, explained would be have negative effects down the road. She said increasing the role of private, for-profit corporations come at the expense of shrinking the public system.

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