On Thursday, a 15-foot wooden Trojan horse visited Kingston Health Sciences Centre, part of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) and the Ontario Health Coalition’s rally against the privatization of health services in Ontario.
Sharon Richer, Secretary-Treasurer of OCHU, explained in an interview with CFRC, “They’re telling Ontarians that this is a gift that they’re bringing them because it’ll lower wait times, it’ll end the hallway medicine, the staffing crisis will be averted from the hospitals. And this is really not really true about what is happening.”
Hannah Jenner, spokesperson for the Minister of Health, responded by pointing to various actions that the Ford government has taken in healthcare, which they say includes increasing investment across the hospital sector by 4% for a record two years in a row, and getting shovels in the ground for over 50 hospital development projects across the province.
The Trojan horse will continue on its journey across the province throughout the rest of the month.
