FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 12, 2025
78 per cent of people in Western Ontario want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals instead of private clinics: new poll

Kitchener, ON – Conducted soon after the recent Ontario budget allocated $280 million for expansion of private clinics, a new poll shows that 78 per cent of people in Western Ontario want the government to prioritize investments in public health care.

The Nanos poll conducted in May surveyed over a thousand Ontarians about privatization of hospital services and their perception about staffing in public hospitals, including a representative sample from the Western region of the province.

The poll was commissioned by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), which will be releasing a supplementary report on privatization on Friday.

The union will also be showing a map of Waterloo Region based on the Ontario Marginalization Index as a visual representation of the inequitable access to privatized hospital services.

Who:    Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) and Doug Allan, CUPE Researcher 

What:   Media conference to release polling and report on privatization of hospital services

Where: Grand River Stanley Park Library – 175 Indian Road, Kitchener, ON

When:  2 p.m. on Friday, June 13

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For more information, contact:

Zee Noorsumar

CUPE Communications    

znoorsumar@cupe.ca

647-995-9859