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Closing the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em>: Never!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In Ontario, the election of the Progressive Conservatives led by Mike Harris in 1995 marked the accession to power of a political party that embraced a neo-conservative conception of the role of the state in society. Echoing its election slogan \u201cThe Common Sense Revolution,\u201d the Harris government embarked on deregulation, administrative reengineering and major budget cuts, notably in education, social services, and health care. As part of this Common Sense Revolution, he appointed the Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission. On February 24, 1997, the Commission recommended the closure of the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em>, a French-language health care establishment in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This recommendation triggered one of the largest mobilizations in the history of Franco-Ontarians. Under the leadership of Gis\u00e8le Lalonde, the former mayor of Vanier in the National Capital region, the S.O.S. Montfort committee launched a vast campaign to prevent the closure of the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em>. Several thousand people signed petitions, such as the one published in the newspaper Le Droit<\/em> on March 13, 1997. The text of this petition insisted on the role of the hospital as a key institution for the francophone community, but also as a place for French-language training of healthcare personnel in Ontario. Many Franco-Ontarians took part in several demonstrations and attended a rally at the Ottawa Civic Centre.

On August 13, 1997, the Commission recommended the partial reopening of the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em> by offering only psychiatric services, as well as ambulatory, obstetric and long-term care. The leaders of S.O.S. Montfort denounced this solution as a half-measure. The legal challenge launched by S.O.S. Montfort was more successful. The Ontario Divisional Court, on November 29, 1999, and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, on December 7, 2001, both ruled that the closure of the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em> was contrary to the principle of protecting the rights of linguistic minority communities in Canada. Not only did the H\u00f4pital Montfort<\/em> remain open, but the provincial Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty, elected in 2003, and the federal government invested in an expansion project for the establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the document<\/strong> : Changeons la d\u00e9cision. Sauvons Montfort? 1 p.

Date :<\/strong> March 13, 1980

Reference : <\/strong>Reprinted with permission from the newspaper Le Droit<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonenfant, Angie. \u00ab Il \u00e9tait une fois S.O.S. Monfort \u00bb (r\u00e9cit num\u00e9rique), Radio-Canada.<\/a><\/span>

Gagnon, Marc-Andr\u00e9. \u00ab SOS Montfort \u00bb, L\u2019Encyclop\u00e9die canadienne.<\/a><\/span>

\u00ab SOS Montfort (1997) \u00bb, mON400, Mus\u00e9es Ontario.<\/a><\/span>

\u00ab SOS Montfort \u00bb. Exposition. CRCCF, Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printed sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard, Roger. \u00c0 la d\u00e9fense de Montfort,<\/em> Ottawa, Le Nordir, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deevey, Roxanne. Montfort et le Droit : m\u00eame combat?<\/em> Ottawa, Le Nordir, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gratton, Michel. Montfort. La lutte d\u2019un peuple,<\/em> Ottawa, Centre franco-ontarien de ressources p\u00e9dagogiques, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lebel, Marie. \u00ab Montfort, de l\u2019affaire \u00e0 la cause. Un moment charni\u00e8re dans les strat\u00e9gies de d\u00e9fense des droits des francophones \u00bb, dans Martin P\u00e2quet (dir.), Faute et r\u00e9paration au Canada et au Qu\u00e9bec contemporains. \u00c9tudes historiques,<\/em> Qu\u00e9bec, \u00c9ditions Nota bene, 2006, p. 289-318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martel, Marcel. \u00ab Usage du pass\u00e9 et m\u00e9moire collective franco-ontarienne : le souvenir du R\u00e8glement 17 dans la bataille pour sauver l\u2019h\u00f4pital Montfort \u00bb, Mens, Revue d\u2019histoire intellectuelle de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise<\/em>,<\/em> vol. 6, no<\/sup> 1 (automne 2005), p. 69-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miville, Serge. \u00ab Montfort ferm\u00e9 : jamais? Le discours nationalitaire de SOS Montfort dans les journaux franco-ontariens \u00bb, Recherches sociographiques,<\/em> vol. 61, no<\/sup> 2-3 (mai-d\u00e9cembre 2020), p. 319-346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paquet, Gilles. \u00ab Montfort et les nouveaux \u00c9l\u00e9ates \u00bb, Francophonies d\u2019Am\u00e9rique,<\/em> vol. 13 (2002), p. 139-155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perron Roach, Danielle. \u00ab H\u00f4pital Montfort : reflets de la francophonie en \u00e9volution \u00bb, Reflets : Revue d\u2019intervention sociale et communautaire,<\/em> vol. 21, no<\/sup> 2 (automne 2015), p. 217-228.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Montfort ferm\u00e9 : Jamais! En Ontario, l\u2019\u00e9lection des progressistes-conservateurs dirig\u00e9s par Mike Harris, en 1995, marque l\u2019accession au pouvoir d\u2019un parti politique qui adh\u00e8re \u00e0 une conception n\u00e9oconservatrice du r\u00f4le de l\u2019\u00c9tat dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Reprenant son slogan \u00e9lectoral \u00ab La r\u00e9volution du bon sens \u00bb, le gouvernement Harris proc\u00e8de \u00e0 la d\u00e9r\u00e9glementation, \u00e0 la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60472210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfdu74-9G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60472210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}