Members of our organization participated in the recent January 29th, 2020 Pre-Budget Consultation meeting held in Windsor with both verbal presentation and written submissions, where we addressed in detail our requests for Stage’s 2 & 3 funding for moving our project forward in the process and with copies on file with your Mr. Stan Cho, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance and Member, Standing Committee of Finance and Economic Affairs.

Based on the above and recent events that have occurred relative to our new hospital plan initiatives, it is now clearer than ever, that you’re Government has what is necessary to re-approve funding for Stage’s 2 & 3 and to set firm RFQ dates for the next planning phases to get our project moving forward and built prior to 2028.

The only current delay in proceeding with planning is the necessary $3 million from the Province of Ontario to restart Phase 2.

• The legal challenges associated with the location of the new Acute Care Regional Hospital have been put to rest with the July 29, 2020, decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Divisional Court.

  CAMPP denied leave to appeal hospital location but further appeal possible

  Anne Jarvis • Windsor Star Publishing date: Jul 31, 2020

  https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/campp-denied-leave-to-appeal-hospital-location-but-further-appeal- possible

  - Citizens for an Accountable Megahospital Planning Process have been denied leave to appeal the location of the planned new $2-billion hospital on County Road 42 to Ontario’s divisional court.

  - “In my view, CAMPP has failed to demonstrate that leave to appeal should be granted with respect to any of the grounds of appeal that it proposes,” Ontario Divisional Court Justice Gregory J. Verbeem concluded in his 48-page ruling released Thursday.

  - The judge not only dismissed CAMPP’s motion for leave to appeal, he hit the group with a total of $28,250 in costs for the city, which approved the Official Plan and zoning bylaw amendments for the project, and Windsor Regional Hospital, which was also a party to the case.

  - Although he agreed that CAMPP met the criteria for a public interest litigant — meaning it raised issues of broad importance for the community and therefore shouldn’t be subjected to costs — the judge concluded that its motion for leave to appeal “lacked any merit.”

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  Jarvis: It's time to build it

  Anne Jarvis • Windsor Star Publishing date: Aug 01, 2020

  https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/jarvis-its-time-to-build-it

  - “…failed to demonstrate that leave to appeal should be granted…no chance of success.”

  - There was no equivocating in Superior Court Justice Gregory J. Verbeem’s ruling denying Citizens for an Accountable Megahospital Planning Process leave to appeal the location of the planned new hospital on County Road 42 to Ontario’s divisional court. CAMPP’s motion was roundly and flatly denied…

• The new Regional Acute Care Hospital in conjunction with improvements to the regional healthcare system plan continues to be the #1 Priority of the City of Windsor and County of