Destroying the Public Healthcare System to Fund a Private One: The New Wave of Healthcare in Canada

Jan 26, 2023

In this episode, nurses and healthcare advocates Amie Archibald-Varley & Sara Fung discuss the new privatization clinics and hospitals proposed by the Ford government in Canada and Ontario. We also discuss strategies for how people can get involved in making changes and protecting our current system. 

“That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital”~ Noam Chomsky.

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Links to resources/ Written Credits: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nd_lJCWOUM Noam Chomsky 

 

https://cupe.ca/fords-plan-expand-private-clinics-ontario-will-cost-patients-dearly-risk-lives-and-significantly

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinics-health-care-1.6712444

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-surgery-wait-times-private-sector-clinics-1.6715340

 

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2023/01/19/the-warnings-about-doug-ford-and-private-health-care-are-coming-true.html

 

Video Clip: Credit: 

https://www.tvo.org/video/is-expanding-private-health-care-the-right-move-for-ontario