<div dir="auto">Please consider signing this. Thank you, Catherine </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Simran Ghuman - Leadnow</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:leadnow@leadnow.ca">leadnow@leadnow.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:18 PM<br>Subject: Doug Ford's healthcare plans<br>To: <<a href="mailto:catherine.walther@gmail.com">catherine.walther@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div>
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<b>Healthcare workers have been pushed to the brink, ER wait times are abhorrent, and nearly 2 million Ontarians don't have access to a family doctor.</b> [1-3] So many of us are feeling helpless and worried about the quality of health care we'll receive should we need it.
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This isn’t an accident. <b>Premier Ford has systematically underfunded our healthcare system and is giving public money to private, for-profit clinics</b> — masquerading this as a solution to the crisis he helped create. He wants to play the hero but we know <b>privatization could lead to a two-tier healthcare system</b> where the quality of care you receive depends on the size of your wallet. [4,5] <br><br>
Already, over 20,000 of you have signed the petition to stop the expansion of private surgery clinics. Now it's time to <b>kick it up a notch and voice our concerns all over Ontario’s papers, where it'll be seen by thousands of local constituents and Ford's MPPs </b>themselves.<br><br>
<b>If we can flood our local newspapers with letters to the editor, we could shine a light on the risks of Ford's for-profit, two-tiered healthcare system</b> and expose his role in manufacturing the healthcare crisis. We can show PC MPPs just how unpopular American-style healthcare is. They'll know that as they’re reading our messages in the papers, so are thousands of their constituents. <b>It could force them to act and carry our outrage all the way to Ford. </b><br><br>
If you agree that no one should be allowed to profit off of sick people, <b><a href="https://identity.leadnow.ca/clicks/link/9459/82e10cce-0de2-4918-a91e-c2a31b7bfd2e?url=https%3A%2F%2Fact.leadnow.ca%2Fhealthcare-lte%2F%3Futm_source%3Dleadnow%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dblast2023-01-30&member_guid=72fa0a0a-9f31-490c-aaec-98562e38b6be&identity-signature=39435622095618f0ac931ebf776dd14d258bbbf0b6fb50421c03eab7442e820a" target="_blank">will you write a letter to the editor now?</a> </b><br><br>
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<b>If you’ve never written a letter to your local paper before, we’ve provided talking points to help you craft your personalized message.</b> Our tool will help you submit your letter to 5 newspapers in your area with just one click.<br><br>
<b>The more personal your message is, the more likely it is that your paper will publish it.</b> You could write about why a strong public healthcare system is important to you. Or you could share your worries about what Ford’s plans will mean for the quality of care you, or your friends and family will receive. It doesn’t have to be long — in fact, the shorter, the better!<br><br>
<b>Ford is banking on public outcry to die down on his privatization plans.</b> That’s why it’s strategic for us to try to make our pressure as public as possible. <b>If every one of us reading this email sent a letter, our message will be seen by thousands of local readers, political staffers and MPPs themselves. </b>It could be enough to force them to backtrack from privatization and invest in public healthcare instead. <br><br>
<b>So, Catherine , <a href="https://identity.leadnow.ca/clicks/link/9459/82e10cce-0de2-4918-a91e-c2a31b7bfd2e?url=https%3A%2F%2Fact.leadnow.ca%2Fhealthcare-lte%2F%3Futm_source%3Dleadnow%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dblast2023-01-30&member_guid=72fa0a0a-9f31-490c-aaec-98562e38b6be&identity-signature=39435622095618f0ac931ebf776dd14d258bbbf0b6fb50421c03eab7442e820a" target="_blank">will you write a letter to the editor now?</a> </b><br><br>
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With hope,<br>
Simran and Maggie for Leadnow<br><br>
Sources:<br>
[1] <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/ontario-hospitals-staffing-shortages-2026-20221216/" target="_blank">https://pressprogress.ca/ontario-hospitals-staffing-shortages-2026-20221216/</a> <br>
[2] <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9262922/ontario-hospital-wait-times-september-leaked-report/" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/9262922/ontario-hospital-wait-times-september-leaked-report/</a> <br>
[3] <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-family-physicians-1.6596653" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-family-physicians-1.6596653</a> <br>
[4] <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/11/29/doug-ford-government-spent-35b-less-than-expected-in-first-half-of-2022-23-budget-watchdog-finds.html" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/11/29/doug-ford-government-spent-35b-less-than-expected-in-first-half-of-2022-23-budget-watchdog-finds.html</a> <br>
[5] <a href="https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-pitches-private-surgeries-offered-by-his-donors-as-solution-to-ontarios-health-care-crisis/" target="_blank">https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-pitches-private-surgeries-offered-by-his-donors-as-solution-to-ontarios-health-care-crisis/</a></td>
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