Monday, September 8, 2025

CLAC Members and Staff Lobby for Change in Ontario Healthcare

Key issues brought forward include fair compensation, expansion of mandatory WSIB coverage, violence in long term care, and permanent wage enhancements for non-PSW employees

Ontario Healthcare Healthcare

On May 5, a group of members and representatives travelled to Toronto for CLAC’s Ontario Healthcare Lobby Day at Queen’s Park. This is an annual event where members and representatives bring pressing issues in the healthcare sector to the attention of provincial ministers and members of provincial parliament (MPPs) and advocate for change.

This year, 15 CLAC healthcare members attended, as well as several CLAC representatives and staff. The group met with provincial government staff from three key ministries (Seniors and Accessibility; Health; and Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development) and had 15 meetings with members of provincial parliament.

One of these meetings resulted in an MPP accepting a member’s invitation to come visit their long term care home himself.

Thank you to all our members who participated. Your voices are what makes days like this so impactful.

MPPs Members and Staff Met With

Dr. Adil Shamji, MPP for Don Valley East and Liberal Critic for Primary Care, Urgent Care, Public Health, Indigenous Affairs and Housing
Ms. Aislinn Clancy, MPP for Kitchener Centre
Ms. Bobbi Ann Brady, MPP for Haldimand-Norfolk
Ms. Catherine Fife, MPP for Waterloo and NDP Shadow Minister for Economic Development Job Creation and Trade
Ms. Dawn Gallagher-Murphy, MPP for Newmarket Aurora and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Long Term Care
Ms. France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt and Shadow Minister for Health and Francophone Affairs
Mr. Jamie West, MPP for Sudbury and NDP Critic for Labour, Energy and Mines
Ms. Jennifer (Jennie) Stevens, MPP for St. Catharines and NDP Shadow Minister for the Solicitor General
Mr. John Fraser, MPP for Ottawa South and Liberal Critic for Labour and Education
Ms. Laurie Scott, MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
Ms. Lee Fairclough, MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore
Mr. Lorne Coe, MPP for Whitby and Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier
Mr. Matthew Rae, MPP for Perth-Wellington
The Hon. Sam Oosterhoff, MPP for Niagara West and Associate Minister for Energy Intensive Industries
Ms. Stephanie Smyth, MPP for St. Paul’s and Liberal Critic for Seniors and Accessibility

CLAC Members and Staff Lobby for Change in Ontario Healthcare

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