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A poll released by CUPE Ontario says people in North Bay and East Nipissing are strongly opposed to public divestment of Cassellholme.

The Cassellholme board is looking at the home becoming a non profit something the union believes would turn it into a privately run nursing home.

CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn says just over 800 people responded in the poll.

He says 81 per cent of those who responded support the statement that they are opposed to Cassellhome becoming a privately run nursing home

87 per cent of the poll respondents want council members to vote to make a statement on Cassellhome whether private or public and 59 per cent would be less likely to vote for said councillor or mayor if they voted to make Cassellholme private.