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Trade treaties heighten privatization threat to Medicare and health care reform: new study
Ottawa — Trade treaty rules and proliferating health care privatization are a dangerous mixture that threatens Medicare and health care reform in Canada, warns a new study published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Canada’s trade treaty commitments could make health care commercialization a one-way street, not easily reversible…
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December 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part II of III)
Personal incomes rise much more slowly in free trade years The noted Canadian economist Pierre Fortin tells us that, “during the 1990s, Canada’s aggregate economic performance has been the worst since the great depression, and very nearly the worst among all industrial countries.” For those of you who might think…
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December 2003: Making a Living
Canada’s social activists should mount a “living wage” movement The goal of many social reformers dedicated to improving conditions for the poor is to enable them “to be able to come into society without shame.” Policy measures therefore must do more than ensure that everyone has a minimum income. People…