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Today, our health care system is a national emergency. Canadian Action Party knows how to fix it without turning the system over to private for profit interests. The Bank of Canada could be used to finance its health and survival. This could be achieved by creating and spending money into circulation specifically targeted for health care needs: hospitals (see also CANADA INFRASTRUCTURE
BONDS), doctors, nurses, technicians, equipment, and so on.
After federal funding cuts of $25 billion over the past ten years, CAP supports the minority government decision to put federal funding back up to 25%. We need more we need to immediately:

• Make natural holistic remedies available under Medicare.

• Scientific studies on Genetically Modified Organisms, irradiation and vaccines

• Foster a genuine Canadian drug industry vs. giant for profit U.S. drug industry

• Promote preventative medicine with emphasis on how poverty, stress and pollution affect
health.

Canadian Action Party Supports the implementation of The Romanow Report, which made it abundantly clear that Canadians want adequately funded universal health care that includes home care and a drug plan.

Two years of intergovernmental bickering have brought federal funding back up to 25% however, there are no conditions attached and, Prime Minister Paul Martin has already created a new cabinet post to oversee public-private partnerships.

To prevent the privatization of health care the Canadian Action Party would:

• Place a moratorium on all public/private partnerships

• Enforce labeling of genetically modified and irradiated foods

• Ensure that Canada Health Act is enforced

Finally, Canadians must understand that any decent health-care system in this country
requires three major changes:

1) We must cancel the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA because these "trade" deals give U.S. corporations the right to challenge the very existence of Medicare by claiming it is a trade irritant which distorts the "free" market. We can do so with six months notice.

2) We must stop the sell-out of Canada to large foreign corporations, and maintain control over our resources and industries. A country is no longer independent — and can't afford social programs — if its assets and decision-making are controlled beyond its borders. The end of Canada means the end of Medicare.

3) We must reform our monetary system. Right now, our money creation is a virtual monopolyof the private banks. The Canadian ACTION Party will return to the economic and monetarysystem we had from 1939 to 1974 when the money-creation function was shared between the government of Canada, through the Bank of Canada, and private banks. This would provide the fiscal flexibility necessary to fund health care and other essential services without increasing taxes.