Category: Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition is a volunteer organization that has been fighting to preserve our Universal Health Care in Ontario for years. Right now they are asking Ontario and Canadian residents to sign the federal Petition e-6811.

Unlike the many petition websites all over the web, federal e-Petitions actually go before the government, and the government must, at least, answer it. Such petitions have to be sponsored by an MP (in this case Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith) who will present it to Parliament at his first opportunity. We only have until Friday, January 16, 2026, at 4:41 p.m. (EDT) to sign this petition. The more signatories there are, the more weight it will carry with the government.

The text of this petition is pretty self explanatory (taken directly from the federal petition site) is as follows:

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Petition to the Minister of Health

Whereas:

• Ontario’s Doug Ford government has redirected thousands of surgeries from public hospitals to private, for-profit clinics and hospitals, and
• The private MRI/CT and cataract surgery clinics are extra-billing patients, charging user fees, and manipulating patients — particularly elderly patients — into paying thousands of dollars when they go in for care, and
• Patients are reporting exorbitant charges of $4,000, $8,000, even up to $11,000 for cataract surgery in Ontario’s private clinics, as well as hundreds of dollars for access to primary care in private for-profit nurse practitioner clinics, and
• The Canada Health Act bans user fees and extra-billing of patients & requires that our medical care be funded by taxes (OHIP) and provided without financial barriers, based on Canadians’ medical need not how much money a person has, and
• No patient should be forced or manipulated into paying for their cataract and other surgeries, MRIs and CTs, and primary care – in fact these charges are just what the Canada Health Act was set up to prevent, therefore

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to uphold and enforce the Canada Health Act.

Open for signature September 18, 2025, at 4:41 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature January 16, 2026, at 4:41 p.m. (EDT)

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6811

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For more information please visit The Ontario Health Coalition. You can find them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Don’t delay! Sign this e-Petition today!