ONTARIO BUDGETS EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Ontario Budget Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: July 22, 2021

This page is continually updated.

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Ontario Budget:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• ANALYSIS: Key Message & Quick Analysis of Ford Government Economic Statement Just Released (3/25/2020)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)
• ADVISORY: OHC 2016 Pre-Budget Briefing (2/25/2016)
• SUBMISSION: Local Coalition Submissions to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (2/1/2016)
• SUBMISSION: to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs (2/18/2015)
• SUBMISSION: OHC Provincial Budget Submission (7/17/2014)
• RELEASE: Schedule 28 Update: Weak amendments to McGuinty omnibus budget bill facilitate sweeping privatization – Citizens’ groups call for privatization clause to be struck down (6/15/2012)
• ANALYSIS: Drummond Report: Summary and Analysis (2/16/2012)
• REPORT: Health Coalition Issues Pre-Drummond Report Warning of Major Health Cuts: First Do No Harm (2/10/2012)
• REPORT: Health Spending and Revenues in Ontario: A closer look at financial trends and the recommendations of TD Economics (9/22/2010)
• SUBMISSION: Pre-Budget Consultations (2/11/2004)
• SUBMISSION: Pre-Budget Consultations (2/10/2004)
• SUBMISSION: Pre-Budget Consultations (2/4/2004)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• ANALYSIS & FACT CHECKER: Quick Facts & Analysis + Fact Checker: Ford government’s health care funding (11/11/2024)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Health care funding briefing note: putting the fall economic statement in context (11/2/2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (5/27/2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (3/24/2021)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (3/25/2020)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Province Ignored Repeated Warnings and Evidence Leading to Yesterday’s Declaration of “State of Emergency” in Brampton Hospital, Similar Issues Apply Across Ontario (1/24/2020)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (11/20/2019)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (8/3/2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Briefing Note on Ontario Cabinet Shuffle: Deep Concerns about Ideological Positions of New Minister of Long-Term Care & Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addictions (6/21/2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: List of local hospital and health services cuts/mergers/privatization (5/30/2019)
• URGENT UPDATE: Undeniable signals Doug Ford intends major health care privatization (4/18/2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)
• VIDEO: Better health care through innovation “The Agenda, March 4, 2019” (3/8/2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Pre-Budget Note (4/26/2017)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUND: Ontario Government Responsible for Overwhelmed Hospital Emergency Departments: Critical Bed Shortages “Systemic and Pervasive” (1/10/2017)
• MYTH BUSTER: Hospital Funding in Ontario Budget 2016 (3/24/2016)
• ADVISORY: Ontario Budget Watch and Pre-Budget Briefing (4/22/2015)
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Webinar on the Drummond Report (2/18/2012)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Today’s Minister of Health Speech on Health Reform (1/30/2012)
• BACKGROUNDER: The Drummond Commission: A Cover for Cuts and Privatization (1/23/2012)
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Is Health Spending Out of Control? (6/24/2009)
• RELEASE: 2008 Ontario Budget: OHC’s Pre-Budget Analysis & Hospital Deficit “Hot Spots” Map (3/20/2008)
• FACT SHEET: Budget Analysis: Information on how the McGuinty government’s first budget impacts on health care (5/18/2004)
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Pre-Budget Consultations (2/15/2004)
• PRESENTATION: Pre-Budget Consultations (2/11/2004)

Media Releases

• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (5/27/2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (3/24/2021)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (3/25/2020)
• RELEASE: New CBC Hospital Overcrowding Data Should Compel Much More Substantive & Urgent Response from Ford Government: Health Coalition (1/22/2020)
• SUBMISSION: Ontario Health Coalition’s Pre-Budget Submission to the Ontario Legislative Assembly (1/17/2020)
• RELEASE: Ford Government Cuts to Long-Term Care Funding Risk Already Over-Stressed Care Levels    (7/10/2019)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Statement on Today’s Mental Health Funding Announcement by Ford Government (5/6/2019)
• RELEASE: More than 10,000 Protest to tell Ford Government to stop health privatization, cuts (5/1/2019)
• UPDATE: 13++ Reasons to Come to the Giant Health Care Rally! (4/29/2019)
• RELEASE: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans (4/23/2019)
• RELEASE: Budget Health Care Briefing: What is being Cut, Myth Buster, What is Coming (4/11/2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)
• VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization (3/27/2019)
• RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (2/11/2019)
• RELEASE: Doug Ford’s planned cuts to provincial revenues on top of paying down deficit irresponsible and damaging: Health Coalition, September 21, 2018 (9/21/2018)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (6/4/2018)
• RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (6/3/2018)
• RELEASE: Provincial Election Discussion Should be About Rebuilding Public Hospitals & Long-Term Care Not “Efficiencies” or “Lean” or Code Words for Cuts: Health Coalition Calls for Concrete Commitments to Redress the Crisis in Access to Care (5/16/2018)
• RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (4/13/2018)
• VIDEO: Impassioned debate in legislature on hospital cuts featuring quotes from OHC (11/2/2017)
• RELEASE: Thousands of Patients Lining Hospital Hallways in Brampton “Code Gridlock” Just the Tip of the Iceberg (10/31/2017)
• RELEASE: Hamilton’s Hospitals Have Passed the Tipping Point: Urgent campaign launched to stop $27-million in cuts (8/8/2017)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (4/27/2017)
• MEDIA CONFERENCE: Canada’s Health Coalitions Call for a United Health Accord Federal Government Must Return to the Negotiation Table (2/9/2017)
• RELEASE: Coalition Applauds Wynne Government for Reversing Course on Seniors’ Drug Fee Increase (4/8/2016)
• RELEASE: 2016 Ontario Budget — Minimal Funding Increases for Hospitals: Not Far Enough (2/25/2016)
• RELEASE: Patients, Concerned Citizens and Workers Rally Outside Pre-Budget Hearings to Stop Devastating Hospital Cuts, Privatization (2/1/2016)
• UPDATE: Pre-budget hearing rallies! (2/1/2016)
• EVENTS: Members of Provincial Parliament Traveling Across Ontario for Pre-Budget Hearings (1/11/2016)
• EVENT: Members of Provincial Parliament Traveling Across Ontario for Pre-Budget Hearings (1/6/2015)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Austerity Continues For Community Hospitals Plus Some Good News on Minimum Wage, Pensions (7/17/2014)
• RELEASE: Bad News Budget Will Result in Health Care Cuts and Privatization (5/2/2013)
• RELEASE: Withdraw Schedule 28 from the Ontario Omnibus Budget Bill entirely, says community and health advocates (6/11/2012)
• RELEASE: Ontario-Wide Tour to Visit 15 Communities Warning of Ontario Budget Cutbacks to Health Care (5/7/2012)
• RELEASE: Budget: OHC Releases Four Demands to Protect Public Interest – Warns Ontario Budget Puts Health Care in Peril (4/2/2012)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Leaves More than 30,000 Ontarians Waiting for Health Care (3/27/2012)
• RELEASE: The Drummond Commission & Public Service Cuts: Public Interest Groups Deeply Concerned About Undemocratic Process (1/27/2012)
• RELEASE: McGuinty Warned to Stop Health Care Privatization: OHC Responds to Drummond Commission (12/7/2011)
• OPEN LETTER: Public Service Reform: Open Letter to Dalton McGuinty (5/31/2011)
• RELEASE: McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table – Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information (4/29/2011)
• RELEASE: OHC Response to Provincial Budget: McGuinty Must Stop “Over the Top” Crisis Rhetoric Used to Justify Hospital Cuts (3/25/2010)
• RELEASE: Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts (3/26/2009)
• RELEASE: 2008 Ontario Budget: OHC’s Pre-Budget Analysis & Hospital Deficit “Hot Spots” Map (3/20/2008)
• Budget Announcement Outlines Wholesale Hospital Privatization: Health Coalition Outraged at Betrayal (5/11/2005)
• RELEASE: Health Premiums Unprincipled & Unenforceable: Ontario Health Coalition (5/18/2004)