<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Sunday Community,<div class="">I am sharing this important notice, widely. Thank you, Kathy.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Elizabeth Whelan</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kathy Butkovich <<a href="mailto:kmbutkovich4@gmail.com" class="">kmbutkovich4@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Fwd: [OHC] Ontario referendum to stop Ford govt's privatization of our hospitals announced</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 28, 2023 at 12:17:12 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kathy Butkovich <<a href="mailto:kmbutkovich4@gmail.ca" class="">kmbutkovich4@gmail.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Friends,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">This province-wide community referendum to stop Ford Government ’s privatization of our public hospital's on May 26th and May 27th is our opportunity to have our voices heard . Health care first then Education. Privatization could destroy our public health care system.</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" class="">On Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">we will hold the referendum. More than a thousand voting stations will be open across Ontario. Leading in, throughout the month of May, online voting will be available on the main website <a href="http://publichospitalvote.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">PublicHospitalVote.ca</a> and workplace votes will take place.</span></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My hope is that you will share this widely,</div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Kathy<br class="">--<br class="">Kathy Butkovich<br class=""><a href="mailto:kmbutkovich4@gmail.com" class="">kmbutkovich4@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""> Fwd: [OHC] Ontario referendum to stop Ford govt's privatization
of our hospitals announced … </span>Taking the liberty of sharing on behalf of Ontario Health Coalition<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Tina Agrell<span style="color:#1f497d" class=""> </span><a href="mailto:agrelltina@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">agrelltina@gmail.com</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<b class="">Please distribute widely</b><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Ontario Health Coalition</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Province-Wide Community Referendum</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">to Stop Ford Government’s Privatization of Our Public Hospitals</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">__________________________</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:center">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">Health Coalitions across Ontario launched a major fightback to stop the privatization of our public hospitals today. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">The Coalition is mounting a<b class=""> <span style="color:blue" class="">community-run referendum</span></b>. Health Coalitions are organizing voting stations outside grocery stores, local corner stores,
coffee shops, at Legions and community centres and in every busy part of our communities that we can.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" class="">On Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">we will hold the referendum. More than a thousand voting stations will
be open across Ontario. Leading in, throughout the month of May, online voting will be available on the main website <a href="http://publichospitalvote.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">PublicHospitalVote.ca</a> and workplace votes will take place.</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class=""> __________________________</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">The Ford government has now announced it is moving forward with plans to “significantly” [their words] expand privatization of surgeries and diagnostics and private
hospitals and clinics to for-profit clinics and hospitals. They have brought in new legislation to facilitate this plan. They have used their majority to vote down all recommended amendments to the legislation, and
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Bill 60</a>, which is in Third Reading debate in the Legislature, is expected to pass this week. They will use their majority to pass the bill, even though Ontarians have never had any say over this plan to privatize our hospitals.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">In fact, the Ford government said that they would NOT do this in the lead in to the election, then two months after the election, they announced they were moving
forward with the privatization of our core public hospitals' services. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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private day hospitals to do 14,000 cataract surgeries initially as well as diagnostics.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">They have given repeated boosts of tens of <span style="color:#1a1a1a" class="">millions
in new to expand existing private clinics to cover care for “thousands of patients”.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a" class="">They are expanding the number of private clinics
and intend to further expand the volumes as well as to expand the types of surgeries they privatize. They plan to have private hip and knee surgeries up and running by 2024.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a" class="">At the same time the government has <u class="">under</u>spent
the health care budget and the COVID budget every year by billions of dollars. The most recent figures show that while we are underspent on health care by $1.25 billion, the Ontario government has increased funding massively for the private for-profit clinics
and hospitals. It is a big transfer of money from our public health care services to for-profits. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#1a1a1a" class="">Practically every public hospital in Ontario has operating rooms that shut down at 4 p.m. and on weekends, or are closed for weeks or even permanently,
due to lack of funding and staffing. We do not need new operating rooms -- only now they would be owned by for-profit companies. We need our government to support our local public hospitals which have the <a href="https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/wp-content/uploads/Public-Hospital-Funding-per-Capita-2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">lowest
funding in Canada</a>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">Our assessment is that this is very serious and extremely urgent. The premier told media that 50% of the surgeries currently done in hospitals are “easy” [and
thus could be transferred out of public hospitals]. Surgeries, MRIs and CTs are core public hospital services.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">This is not an add on, it is the privatization of our core public hospital services. The loss of these surgeries – and the staff and funding that go with them
-- would be devastating to all local public hospitals and would gut the services that remain in many of the medium and small hospitals.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">While paying lip service to the idea that Ontarians will” pay with their OHIP card not their credit card”, in Bill 60, the Ford government expressly allows the
for-profit clinics to sell an increasing array of medically unnecessary add-ons to needed surgeries and diagnostics. The Canada Health Act, which bans user fees and extra charges for patients for access to physicians, surgeries and diagnostic tests, is being
ignored by the government. Patients are increasingly reporting <a href="https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/release-briefing-note-patients-who-have-been-extra-billed-thousands-of-dollars-in-ontario-private-clinics-join-advocates-to-call-out-ford-governments-false-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">
exorbitant charges for their needed health care</a> including access to doctors, tests and surgeries -- things for which no patient in Canada should ever be charged. There is little question that the Premier is playing both sides, claiming you will always “pay
with your OHIP card” and expanding two-tier charges for patients as it privatizes a whole array of services.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">If this government succeeds in privatizing our public hospitals, we will lose our public hospital system and with it, single-tier public medicare.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">The Fightback: A Community-Run Referendum across Ontario</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">On Tuesday, April 18, Health Coalitions across Ontario will launch a major fightback to stop the privatization of our public hospitals. The
Coalition is mounting a community-run referendum. Health Coalitions are organizing voting stations outside grocery stores, local corner stores, coffee shops, at Legions and community centres and in every busy part of our communities that we can.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" class="">On Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">we will hold the referendum.
More than a thousand voting stations will be open across Ontario. Leading in, throughout the month of May online voting will be available on the main website <a href="http://publichospitalvote.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">PublicHospitalVote.ca</a> and workplace votes
will take place.</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">Do you want our public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and clinics?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><u class=""></u> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">(Please do not use this email to vote! We are not accepting email votes.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">You will be able to vote online after May 2 at </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://publichospitalvote.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class="">PublicHospitalVote.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;" class=""> or in your co</span><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">mmunity during the month of May as per the details here.)</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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across Ontario to launch the referendum</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">In these press conferences we will announce the dates of the referendum, the referendum question, and the date that results will be announced.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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across Ontario to release list of voting stations</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">In these press conferences we will reiterate the dates of the referendum, the referendum question, advance polls (online voting), and the list of voting stations in each community.
Online voting will commence.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class="">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">May 8 – 19 – Workplace votes</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">During this period workplace votes should take place. There is some flexibility for those who need to do it earlier (not before May 2 if possible) or end later (not after May 23 if
possible so that the local coalitions have time before the street voting to chase down workplace votes that are not dropped off).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class="">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Friday May 26 – Saturday May
27 – Referendum Street Votes across Ontario</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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voting totals reported to Ontario Health Coalition</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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across Ontario to announce results</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class="">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">May 31 – 12 – 1 p.m. Delivery
of ballots to Queen’s Park</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">Everyone who is able, bring ballots in to Queen’s Park for media event in front of the Legislature.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:11.75pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">How You Can Help</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Help find voting stations
in your town/region</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class=""> The focus this month is to get all the voting stations arranged. We are asking local stores -- wherever it is busy -- a corner store where there is a gas
station, convenience stores, retail outlets, grocery stores, coffee shops. We are also asking community centres, neighbourhood centres, non-profit agencies, seniors' centres, Legions, and other busy places. It is a community opinion vote and it is about democracy.
These are decisions regarding the future of our local public hospitals and the services we need. We will find volunteers to staff the voting stations on Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27. If you will help find voting stations, or if you own a local business
and can help, please let your local health coalition know. The list of local coalitions is <a href="https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/contact-us/head-office/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">here</a> and has contact info. If your community is not on the list,
please contact us at the Ontario Health Coalition at 416-441-2502 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:ontariohealthcoalition@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0563c1" class="">ontariohealthcoalition@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin-left:36.0pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Organize workplace votes
in every workplace possible</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class=""> during the month of May. If you own a business, are in a union, work in a business, a public service or a non-profit and you can help hold a vote
in the lunchroom or at shift change, or however it works in your workplace, please do help. The list of local contacts across Ontario where you can get ballots, ballot boxes/envelopes and the materials you need to hold a vote – and where you can return them
when you are done -- is attached. (See pdf attachment to this email.) If your community is not on the list, please contact us at the Ontario Health Coalition at 416-441-2502 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:ontariohealthcoalition@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0563c1" class="">ontariohealthcoalition@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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to go to the link) to help build the scale of the referendum. We have thousands of volunteers working across the province now. We have to pay for leaflets, ballots, fact sheets, lawn signs, window signs, car decals, organizers to support the local volunteers
and more. We can build the referendum as big as we have the funding and resources to do,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class="">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Help find volunteers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class=""> for
the votes outside businesses and community hubs at the end of May. We will need tens of thousands of volunteers to staff a thousand or more voting stations outside local coffee shops, grocery stores, at Legions and community centres and more. Volunteers can
get in touch with their local coalitions to help </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><a href="https://publichospitalvote.ca/node/5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0563c1" class="">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:30.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol" class=""> ·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium Cond",sans-serif" class="">Volunteer with your local health
coalition or with the Ontario Health Coalition. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">Volunteers can get in touch with their local coalitions to help </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><a href="https://publichospitalvote.ca/node/5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class=""><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#0563c1" class="">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class="">.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif" class=""> Please note: We are urgently looking for volunteers in the Sudbury Area, Muskoka, Kenora-Rainy River to help set up the referendum in those communities.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br class="">
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