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Fearing that the soaring costs of health care are about to engulf nearly half of their budgets, the governments of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories are seriously considering solutions which may challenge the integrity, if not the existence, of the first publicly funded health care system in the Americas.

"Ten years ago, I was just finishing my doctorate and people in the U.S. were asking if Canada was the model for their health system " Antonia Maioni, Director of the UUÖ±²¥ Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is quoted as saying to The Gazette columnist L. Ian Macdonald. "In 10 years that discourse has changed. Now they're saying we should look at their HMOs."

Author of Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Professor Maioni 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 Bégin, author of the Canada Health Act of 1984, Claude Castonguay, father of Québec'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 ; policy makers, such as Duncan Sinclair (Ontario), Ken Fyke (Saskatchewan) and Michel Clair,(Quebec); academics, such as Tom Noseworthy (U. of Alberta), André-Pierre Contandriopoulos (U. de Montréal) and Margaret Somerville (UUÖ±²¥ 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 see herewith the list of keynote speakers (with telephone numbers) who are willing to speak to the media before and during the conference.

Members of the public who want to participate are invited to register with the UUÖ±²¥ Institute for the Study of Canada: telephone: 514-398-2605 or 2658. facsimile: 514-398-7336. email: johanne.bilodeau [at] mcgill.ca or lynne.darroch [at] mcgill.ca. Registration fee (two lunches are included): $175 (regular), $150 (65 and over), $25 (students). Simultaneous translation will be available. Further information about the MISC conference is available on the UUÖ±²¥ homepage: or on the MISC's web site: .

Thirty Years of Evolution: The Public Model of Health Care in Canada
Professor Antonia Maioni *, UUÖ±²¥ Institute for the Study of Canada 514-398-4815.

The Future of Health Care in Canada
The Honourable Roy Romanow, Royal Commission on The Future of Health Care in Canada c/o Julie Schneiderman at 306-975-6888

Reality Check: Health Care in Canada
The Honourable Edward Broadbent * 613-233-5986
Mr. André Picard *, The Globe and Mail 514-982-3063
Professor Carolyn Tuohy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 416-978-2181

Beyond the Water's Edge: European Comparisons
Professor Jane Jenson *, Institut d'études européennes, Université de Montréal-UUÖ±²¥, 514-343-2079
Professor Kieke Okma *, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University , Senior Policy Advisor,Ministry of Health, Netherlands +3170-340-7236
Professor Carolyn Tuohy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto 416-978-2181

Is There a Crisis in Health Care Financing?
Dr. Stephen Bornstein*, Institute for Work and Health 416-927-2027 #2118
Professor Douglas E. Angus *, School of Management, University of Ottawa (613)562-2500 #4720
Professor André-Pierre Contandriopoulos *, Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal 514-343-6181
Mr. Claude Forget *, UUÖ±²¥ Health Centre and Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) Task Force on Health Policy 514-842-4587
Dr. Hugh Scott *, UUÖ±²¥ Health Centre, 514-843-1560

Who Has Access to Care?
Dr. Samuel E.D. Shortt, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University 613-533-5387
Dr. Tom Noseworthy, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary 780-492-1019

Values and Public Policy in Medicine
Dr. Margaret Somerville, UUÖ±²¥ Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, UUÖ±²¥ 514-398-7401

What Are the Choices to be Made?
Dr. Henry Haddad *, Canadian Medical Association 613-731-8610
Dr. Ginette Lemire Rodger *, Canadian Nurses Association 613-237-2159 #221
Ms. Sharon Sholzberg-Gray *, Canadian Healthcare Association 613-241-8005

Health Care Professionals, Supply and Consequences
Dr. Susan French, School of Nursing, UUÖ±²¥ 514-398-4145
Dr. Hugh Scully, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto 416-340-3693

Hospitals in the 21st Century
Mr. Daniel C. Sloane, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California 213-740-5768
Dr. Nicolas Steinmetz *, Associate Executive Director, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, UUÖ±²¥ Health Centre, 514-934-5060 #673
Mr. Eberhard Zeidler, Zeidler Grinnell Partnership, Toronto 416-596-8300

The Questions of Privatization
The Honourable Claude Castonguay, Consultant 514-767-7908
Professor Kieke Okma *, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University , Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Health, Netherlands +3170-340-7236

What Goes into the Medicare Basket?
Professor Colleen Flood *, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 416-978-4929
Dr. Maurice McGregor, UUÖ±²¥ and Royal Victoria Hospital 514-842-1231 #35056

The Real Issues, the Hard Choices
Mr. Michael Decter *, Canadian Institute for Health Information and Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) Task Force on Health Policy 416-921-5588

Evaluating Solutions and Building Consensus
The Honourable Yves Morin *, Senate standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology 613-992-1689

Pharmacare and Drug Therapy
Mr. Bryan Ferguson *, Partner, Applied Management 416-487-2855

The Potentials and Problems of Home Care
Dr. Peter Coyte, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto 416-978-8369

The Role and Value of Primary Care Practice
Dr. Marie-Dominique Beaulieu *, Unité de recherche évaluative, Centre de recherche CHUM (514)890-8000 #28046

Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care
Dr. Bob Bear, Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Capital Health Authority 780-413-7729
Dr. Paul Leduc-Browne *, Senior Research Fellow, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 613-563-1341

Overcoming Gridlock: From Solution to Decision to Action
Professor Allan Maslove, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs and Management, Carleton University 613-520-3741

Intergovernmental Relations at an Impasse?
Professor Keith Banting, School of Policy Studies, Department of Political Science, Queen's University 613-533-6555

Globalizing Health Care
Mr. Matthew Sanger *, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives and Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit 613-730-1425

Health "System" Organization
Dr. Sholom Glouberman *, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto 416-785-2862
Professor Brenda Zimmerman *, Strategy & Organization, Faculty of Management, UUÖ±²¥ 514-398-5746

Community-Level Initiative and Implementation
Miss Lisa Little, Canadian Nurses Association 613-237-2133 #209
Ms. Bretta Maloff, Calgary Health Region, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary 403-943-8008

MERCK FROSST Canada is the principal partner of Diagnostics and Solutions: Building Consensus for a Health Care Reform in Canada, the year 2002 MISC Public Conference, which is also sponsored by the governments of Canada and Québec as well as by IRPP and Université de Montréal and UUÖ±²¥'s Institute of European Studies.