What the Economic Institute of Montreal?
In Quebec, the ADQ and the PLQ, the political right, often cite to justify their stance in favor of privatization, studies of the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI). But what the Montreal Economic Institute? Is best known for his record MEI schools published annually in the Journal News. It necessarily imagine, with such a name, an independent research institute, nonpartisan and nonprofit. The MEI is registered as a charity, it can not not make political donations and there are facts allow tax cuts to its donors. Yet
MEI occurs frequently in public to request legislative changes such as opening up the healthcare market, the single tax rate, tax reduction and the rejection of state aid to fight against poverty. In addition, each year, MEI publishes its list of schools to promote private schools.
It seeks primarily to transform the system of universal health public-private system. All his works are in the same direction : Reduce the size of government and privatize public services.
This powerful organization associated with the Fraser Institute, funded by companies, has a major influence on policy makers in Quebec. In addition, the MEI has still not registered as a lobbying group in the official register of lobbyists and Quebec refuses to make public the identity of its donors. We must ask ourselves some serious questions about this "think tank" that seems at first to serve the corporate interests that adorn its coffers and slavering over the possibility of replacing government as service provider in the highly lucrative world of medicine.
First a two-tier health, then? The fight will she completed for the MEI and its "shareholders" or will we be entitled to the battle system completely private?
The allies MEI
The Montreal Economic Institute can count on some key allies in its fight to privatize profits and socialize losses (in the words of Richard Desjardins ).
It may well first count on the media empire GESCA, who quickly relay information supporter of MEI. GESCA's La Presse, Le Soleil, La Voix de l'Est, La Tribune, Le Nouvelliste, The Right, The Daily. In addition, Gesca is the sole owner of cyberpresse.ca, one of the busiest Web sites in Quebec.
In Quebec, two groups share 9 of the 10 titles: Quebecor (Le Journal de Montreal and Le Journal de Quebec) with 44% of the total circulation of newspapers and French GESCA, a Canadian subsidiary owned publishing subsidiary of Power Corporation with 53% of the draw. To
manipulate public opinion, dark GESCA easily in misinformation and never hesitates to cite the work of the Institute on Health to sell its political solution, not that of Cuba you guessed it.
Despite that, Cuba has a health system that ranks among the best in the world. If GESCA is both to solve problems in health contemplates why she never seriously the example of Cuba? Ah yes, Cuba was excluded capitalism, we must dismiss it. What is being proposed then the interests of rich cleverly disguised as a virtue? Could it be that health an excuse, and that what really matters is to convince Quebecers that a right turn is needed?
To answer these questions, it is imperative that Power Corp. operates in the lucrative field of insurance and that entity has any interest in the disappearance of universal health care and lead the public debate this direction.
Another major boost to help the project comes from the MEI, the country's highest court, the Supreme Court of Canada itself. Indeed, in 2004, Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, a research associate at the Institute, asked Supreme Court recognized that the delay in obtaining necessary care violates the constitutional right to life, liberty and security of person. Chaoulli proposes to allow those who can afford to pay directly for services provided by private for-profit clinics and to allow private health insurance. The court agrees with him and creates a first opening leading the Charest government to allow private clinics multiply and sell specialized private insurance for knee, hip and cataract.
To put it simply, the democratic process Quebec as a whole is set aside: the opinion of some judges appointed by the Canadian prime minister takes precedence over the democratic will of the Quebec nation as expressed in the National Assembly through its elected members. In no way do we consult the people, everything is decided between a few individuals we must assume impartial. The fact that the Quebec people has never ratified the constitution on which said these so-called judges rely to impose their way of thinking does not seem to weigh very heavily in the balance. Democracy at the Canadian.
What is important is that the Montreal Economic Institute, through GESCA Power Corporation, Canada's constitution and its judges, the Action démocratique du Québec and the Quebec Liberal Party are all working together to end the Quebec model and gradually privatize health system.
Mathieu
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