"Hospitals should be built where the majority of population live."
"After 7 years of lacklustre results the complete hospital planning committee needs to be replaced by a provincial mediator. Taxpayers can't wait forever!"
"The issue of access has been sidestepped again and again, as well as environmental degradation due to sprawl."
"There is a need for meaningful discussion about how the proposed hospital plan will enhance the current quality of, and access to health care services in both Windsor and Essex County. I believe these core issues need to be addressed before the 'planning process' goes any further."
"The selection committee did not take economics into their mega-hospital location, and now they're not accepting COVID-19 or pandemics into their mega-hospital location equation. They (location committee) are working with a flawed model. We need a community rethink of this project. Indigenous included too."
"Why would you build a hospital behind a man-made barrier, the airport, that reduces access from those in the city's most densely populated area. It is pure nonsense."
"My first thought when i heard about the single facility plan was how bad it was from a security/pandemic perspective. My concern for the core came second."
"We keep learning as we become more informed."
"The mayor must accept responsibility as well. Leadership during this difficult time does not need battle lines to be drawn; it requires creative flexibility. The decision to cancel bus service hurts a sector that is already vulnerable. Council should meet and override the mayor's decision."
"This COVID crisis is teaching us that one hospital is a really really bad idea. right now they are using two hospitals to separate covid from non covid. Placing a big hospital on agricultural land is a loss of good farmland when we need that land so we can feed outselves and not be at the mercy of imported foods. There were always better options but the land speculators had to be appeased."
"Several years ago I asked on CAMPP, what if there is a epidemic or a pandemic like SARS happening in Windsor or world wide and having just one major hospital in the middle of nowhere, not only to deal with the pandemic but with all the other things that this one hospital will have deal with. Most people rolled their eyes, thinking that I was dwelling in a science fiction world. Well. My nightmare scenario has come true. We CAN NOT HAVE JUST ONE HOSPITAL in our area of city and county.
We need to clean house and start fresh. We'll all see, decades from now, that the bean field was the wrong choice."
"The location is still the most important decision in regards to a new hospital. No one disputes the technical aspects and attributes of a new medical facility.
Either you believe in a strong vibrant metropolitan Windsor with a hospital downtown or you accept a hallow decaying abandoned downtown.
The location proposed on the outskirts of the municipal boundaries will contribute to a have and have not society separated by your bank balance. I hope and pray compassion and understanding will triumph over dollars and entitlement."
"While I fully support money being spend on improving and adding to the healthcare system in my community, I cannot support the proposed "mega-hospital" plan for Windsor-Essex.
We cannot and should not be adding to irresponsible sprawl and eliminating valuable agricultural land. This proposed building site also removes vital access to healthcare from near the downtown core and therefore puts our most vulnerable citizens at risk.
There are so many reasons why this plan needs to be revised and made transparent and available to the public."
"CAMPP has already provided many valid points regarding the negative impacts to be had at the social and financial levels for the City of Windsor. As an individual who received my post-secondary education in Toronto, in Ryerson University's Architectural Science program, I fully understand and support [CAMPP’s] points. I can support their arguments for the pursuit of contemporary, progressive development for the City of Windsor, whose reputation already suffers enough as being outdated, vacant, and sprawling."
"By locating the new hospital in a more centralized part of Windsor, we can bring foot traffic and activity back into the City. We can increase the number of educated health care professionals in the City. We can provide accessible care to those who do not have personal vehicles, and we can avoid the costly nature of sprawling municipal infrastructure. We already do not have an accessible stadium for sports games and entertainment downtown, and now we are being faced with the lack of a hospital as well. This is the complete opposite to all major successful cities around the world. These are things which make a downtown experience dynamic and desirable. There are educated and cultured individuals who live here that will celebrate and promote progressive development."
"Please help us in changing the direction of this new hospital planning to revolve around a more centralized location. I am not the only one who thinks its location on the fringe will contribute to the growing consensus that our City is becoming a less and less desirable place to live."
"Plenty of people mentioned the lack of appropriate redundancy throughout the planning and discussion period, plenty of times."
"No one disagrees with the need for a hospital and the concept of mostly private rooms."
"No one objects to needing these features within our local hospital or hospitals. This pandemic is a problem but it shouldn’t mean that we toss aside good planning or addressing other issues with the current proposal."
"The last time we didn't fight against a proposal brought up by the City, we got an overpriced aquatic center that is losing money to the point where they want to close profitable pools like Adie Knox.
The time before that was the WFCU center where we have inadequate parking and a loss in downtown revenue. The Windsor Express realized the shortfalls of playing at the WFCU center and are looking to relocate downtown in the old barn.
The City has a track record of making poor decisions with ventures like this in regards to ideas and locations. The underground passage on riverside was another but luckily we got in front of that one.
If we don't fight for the best idea in regards to this "Mega" hospital than we will regret it down the road like the Aquatic Center and the WFCU center."
"Disregard COVID-19 and the implication that it could be with us for a long time (like the flu virus, it may return yearly). Okay, let's pretend pandemics should not affect where the location of the mega-hospital should go. All this that we have learned from this pandemic so far cannot be included in any discussions regarding the mega-hospital location. Out with the new, in with the old. As in evidence. This mega-hospital location issue must include newly-gained medical information (COVID-19) to ensure the healthcare the residents of Essex County deserve. To do so otherwise would be an insult to healthcare and to those who expect excellent healthcare."
"I feel bad that a few people ignored the results of the site selection process and put it in the bean field in the first place. I am thankful that CAMPP is standing up for those in the downtown core and west end who don’t have a voice." | 
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