November 9, 2020 City Council Meeting Item 15 Additional Information Notice of Motion

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Subject: Mega Hospital Item 15 (Notices of Motion) City Council Agenda for November 9,2020

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I am writing in connection with Item 15 (Notices of Motion) on the City Council Agenda for November 9, 2020.

I do not support the construction of the new regional acute care hospital on County Road 42.

I am a Ward 6 resident and have lived in Windsor my entire life until I moved to Kingston last year to attend Queen’s University.

I am very concerned with Windsor City Council’s trend of blatantly disregarding citizens’ concerns, a practice I assumed was standard amongst City leaders until I had the opportunity to live in a different community.

Windsor leaders are setting a very poor example for youth. Forcing the construction of an acute care hospital without addressing the concerns of engineers, urban planners, and citizens is not an honest way to make decisions that will impact the healthcare of future generations.

Using WEEDC’s taxpayer funded “WE Can’t Wait” campaign to help pass this motion is nothing but malicious and sneaky. When a new acute care hospital would contain no more beds, no more funding for nurses, and no real quantitative proof of attracting doctors, City Council is not being realistic and honest to the people they are supposed to be serving.

Building an acute care hospital on County Road 42 is taking a step into the past. This greenfield project would have been shut down long ago had it been proposed in any progressive City serious about addressing climate change. Though I could write pages of opinion and criticism, I feel this would be pointless. CAMPP has raised reasonable concerns for years that have fallen on deaf ears.

The longer I live outside of Windsor, the more certain I am that I will never come back.