MEDIA ADVISORY March 16, 2026

For Immediate Release

Attention: News Desk

National day of action:

Health care coalitions raise the alarm about Alberta’s Bill 11 through a letter writing campaign and rallies outside Liberal MP offices nationwide

Regina – On Monday, March 16, people across Canada will rally outside the offices of their local Liberal Members of Parliament and participate in letter writing and calling their MP.

Universal public health care for all in Canada is under unprecedented threat. Supporters of health care call on the federal government to enforce the Canada Health Act.

Health coalitions across Canada have invited Liberal MPs to join their events, speak to participants, oppose privatization, and commit to bring the issue back to their caucus in Ottawa.

In conjunction with the Canadian Health Coalition and Council of Canadians Saskatchewan Chapter, the Saskatchewan Health Coalition is holding a letter writing campaign to our lone Liberal in the North, MP Buckley Belanger in La Ronge, and launching a social media blitz.

Alberta’s government has passed Bill 11, which we believe ends single tier Public Medicare and brings in U.S. private health care. The law introduces private for-profit health insurance, allows direct billing of patients by doctors for medically essential care, and enables queue jumping for those who can afford it. We consider it to be U.S. private health care, and for-profit health care interests are lined up to cash in.

Health Coalitions and health care advocates are calling on our Liberal MPs and the federal government to:

• Tell Alberta’s government that its health care privatization scheme contravenes the Canada Health Act and they will face a dollar-for-dollar clawback of federal health care funding if they proceed; and,

  
  

• Ensure that the carve-out of public health care in Canada under trade agreements will protect the rest of the country if Alberta contravenes the Canada Health Act. We believe we all risk losing public health care to U.S. for-profit insurance corporations if this spreads across the country.

  
  

  Contact the SHC for more information.