OMA hoping KW voters send a message
Posted Jun 28, 2012 05:33:37 AM.
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Ontario’s doctors are taking their war against the Liberal government to the battleground of the forthcoming Kitchener-Waterloo byelection.
The Ontario Medical Association has unleashed a new round of $1 million attack ads aimed directly at Premier Dalton McGuinty for imposing $338 million worth of fee cuts on physicians and for what they call unfair contract negotiations.
The byelection gives the Liberals a shot at a majority government.
OMA president Dr. Douglas Weir is kicking off the doctors’ information campaign by addressing the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce today. The physicians say at this point they will not endorse a candidate.
The OMA also plans to saturate this market with newspaper and TV ads warning of what they call a looming provincial $1 billion cut to health care and longer wait times for services.
