Don Drummond, who is developing a report on public sector reform for the Ontario government, does not want to attack the Canada Health Act (CHA) -- or at least not directly. The CHA is the federal government legislation which enshrines the five principles of Canadian public health care: Universal, comprehensive, accessible, portable and publicly administered health care for all Canadians. Drummond made this plain in an interview with CBC television about the Canada Health Act and privatization: "[P]ut the word privatization, say the word Canada Health Act and you've got a heart attack, you've got an increase in people going to the hospitals just at the mention of those words. You have to be so careful how you approach this thing. So you have to roll some things off the table right at the beginning and then really focus that all this is about is improving the efficiency and that what we're actually trying to drive up the quality of the care, we're not tryin
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan