Stopping in Cornwall while on a press tour across the province discussing concerns over health-care privatization, the Ontario Health Coalition and Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU-CUPE) raised concerns over the practices of a Cornwall-based ophthalmology clinic on Friday.

Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, claimed a staff person at Premium Vision Surgical Centres in Cornwall told her they would not do cataract surgery at their facility unless people paid for the surgery and for add-ons. Mehra said this practice goes against the laws that protect publicly funded health care in Ontario.

When she called the clinic, Mehra said she was inquiring on behalf of her mother. She read the transcript of the conversation to a

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