Emergency Fundraiser Update - Week 5

 

Dear CAMPP friends and supporters, This week we were delighted to receive a $1,000 donation from CUPE Ontario towards our Emergency Fundraiser. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, an organization with a strong history of advocacy, is Canada’s largest union. Thank you, CUPE Ontario, for supporting CAMPP's efforts to keep hospitals where people live!

From CUPE's Ontario's website:

"With over 280,000 members, CUPE Ontario is a strong voice for rights and fairness for our members and our communities. We work at the provincial level for legislative, policy and political change on issues affecting public services, equality, healthy communities and a better Ontario for everyone."

Since launching our Emergency Fundraiser just five weeks ago, many of you have sent us donations, in varying amounts. To each of you, we are so grateful for your support. CAMPP still needs to raise $32,000 more to pay our court-ordered $55,750 legal bill. Although the deadline to pay this bill has passed, we are continuing to ask for contributions so we can work towards putting this behind us. We know you don't like this situation, but we regard this as the price of keeping healthcare equitable, inclusive and accessible. Everyone in Windsor Essex deserves a better healthcare plan.

Click here to donate to our GoFundMe

Please note: you can also etransfer your donation directly to our account using our email address: windsorcampp@gmail.com.

In their own words Local residents commented last week:

"Your description of the unfolding of the Adie Knox decision illuminates once again how decision-makers in Windsor see community impacts and citizen engagement as peripheral to their actions. One can't help conclude, as with the hospital site selection, that development is the priority, rather than the health and well-being of the community and the environments we live in. Not only is this conduct appalling in its disregard for the role of community in planning, but also the short sightedness, the inequitable criteria behind decisions, the failure to acknowledge environmental and sustainability implications, the utter lack of accountability, and a failure of recognition of the historic, present and future context of the Windsor Essex region and its peoples."

"Having core health care services and functioning public services contribute to a Liveable City that Windsor should be constantly striving towards."

"A brief parable: A homeless person is given a can of tuna by a generous citizen. The homeless person is still hungry without a can opener. The generous citizen walks away feeling complete and full. Heaven forbid if the homeless person speaks up, objects or even suggests this to be inappropriate. The generous person can correctly state the fact: you asked for food, I have given you food. Over time, one learns that it is best to just give up and say 'thank you for the can of tuna'."

"[Council, mayor and administration] mistakenly believe they are here to lead our community. I wish we had some people that were here to serve our community instead."

"The bigger issue is the lack of consultation with residents regarding any of this mayor’s schemes/projects and a majority of counsel willing to support whatever he proposes."

"Appalling that the student body wasn’t consulted given their contribution. Appalling!"

"It’s not good enough to on one hand write [reduced car dependency] into plans and try to awkwardly and often with much hostility, half implement these alternative measures and on the other hand plan a massive urban sprawl development undermining any responsible forward plans established in terms of reduced car dependency. The courage and the will need to truly be there!"

"Something is not right, when Council does not consider/support the majority of delegations of Windsor Residents."

"why can't City Council listen to the residents"

"The city is out of touch with residents remember that next election"

"There is the hospital site, the Adie Knox pool, the steetcar on the waterfront - what next? Does the populace get a choice on anything?"