Union leaders demand meeting with Romano, minister over Group Health

The president of Sault Ste. Marie’s largest steelworker union says the de-rostering of thousands of people in this city is a crisis that is being manufactured by the Ontario PC government in an attempt to eventually privatize health care in the province and that party needs to be voted out before they do more harm.

Romano hasn’t responded to SooToday’s request for comment on Wednesday afternoon, but a spokesperson for the Minister of Health told our sister site at Queen's Park, The Trillium, that the ministry was only notified by the Group Health Centre about the changes just over a week before they were announced publicly.

"I'm really really upset that games are being played with the health care of the people in Ontario and in Canada, but specifically in Sault Ste. Marie," Da Prat told SooToday in a phone interview Thursday. Da Prat told SooToday there are a number of steps the provincial government can take to fill the gap in primary care caused by the loss of 10,000 roster spots at the Group Health Centre, which followed 3,000 lost spots last year.

The solution, said Da Prat, is to use his platform to spread the word that what is happening in Sault Ste. Marie could soon be happening across the province — and the only way out is to vote in a party in the next election that actually wants to fix the problem.

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