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as e-mailed to the Globe and Mail Newspaper, Letters to the Editor: ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:28:20 -0400 > To: [log in to unmask] > From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Petty, parochial, peril > > To the Editor: > > I wonder if the "parochial leaders" objecting to the proposed National > Health Council have fully understood its appeal to their fellow canadian > citizens? The Canada Health Act is a national act, not a provincial or > territorial one. > > The Romanow Commission asked Canadians what we wanted to do about our > health care system and the responses were crystal clear: stop the > intergovernmental squabbling; restore funding to required levels; and make > the system transparent and accountable to all of us. > > The proposed foundation was an empowered health council representing all of > us, including and especially citizens (i.e. us patients and our loved > ones), medical professionals, medical facilities, and all levels of > government. Even more important, the council was to be removed from the > political infighting and electionering roller coaster of "buying" and > "selling" votes year by partisan year. > > (FYI: I have converted the Romanow Report to plain html format - see my > website.) > > To regard the National Health Council as being simply another > federal-provincial power-grab is to miss the point entirely. Just whose > voices ARE they listening to? > > Hello ... ? Or should I say ... En garde! > > Janet Paterson > > diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1988 at age 41 > my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newvoicenews/ > my website: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky pd: 56-41-37 cd: 56-44-43 tel: 613-256-8340 email: [log in to unmask] my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newvoicenews/ my website: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn