February 2002
From McGill University
Diagnostics and solutions building consensus for a health care reform in Canada Author of "Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada", Antonia Maioni, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is confident that the MISC public conference, to be held February 14-16, 2002, will provide her fellow citizens with a better understanding of the reforms needed and proposed for healthcare in Canada.An impressive number of experts have accepted the invitation to speak at the Building Consensus for a Health Care Reform in Canada: Diagnostics and Solutions conference. Whatever their position or stripe, they will all be at the Montreal Renaissance Hotel to help build a consensus on healthcare reform: former politicians, such as ex federal Minister of National Health and Welfare Monique B�gin, author of the Canada Health Act of 1984, Claude Castonguay, father of Qu�bec's assurance maladie, and ex Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow, Chair of the Royal Commission on Health Care in Canada; active politicians, such as federal Health minister Anne McLellan and Fran�ois Legault (to be confirmed), her Qu�bec counterpart; policy makers, such as Duncan Sinclair (Ontario), Ken Fyke (Saskatchewan) and Michel Clair,(Quebec); academics, such as Tom Noseworthy (U. of Alberta), Andr�-Pierre Contandriopoulos (U. de Montr�al) and Margaret Somerville (McGill U.) as well as activists, such as Sharon Sholzberg-Gray (Canadian Healthcare Association) and policy analysts such as Michael Decter (Canadian Institute for Health Information). Journalists are invited to consult the program below which also lists the telephone numbers of the speakers who are willing to speak to the media before and during the conference. Further information about the MISC conference is available on the McGill homepage: www.mcgill.ca or on the MISC's web site: www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/misc. Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the conference free of charge by contacting Anne-Marie Bourdouxhe at the McGill University Relations Office (514) 398-6754. Diagnostics and Solutions Building Consensus for a Health Care Reform in Canada Public conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) February 14-16, 2002. Montreal Renaissance Hotel 3625, avenue du Parc. Press Room telephone number (514) 908-5463/5466 as of 8:00 Friday, February 15. Press room fax number: (514) 908-5457. Source: Anne- Marie Bourdouxhe, Senior Communications Officer, McGill University Relations Office. | |