Powerful testimony from
Dr. Arnold Relman,
Professor Emiritus
Harvard Medical School
Privatization Archives
Conflict of Interest
UPDATE: Kirby to resign from Senate
Liberal Senator Michael Kirby says his last day in the Senate will be Oct.5, 2006.
Kirby is quitting the Senate roughly 10 years before his mandatory retirement date.
Kirby says he is moving on to 'new challenges', but wouldn't specify what they are.
The 65-year-old Kirby was an advisor to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau,
who appointed him to the Senate in 1984.
Democracy Watch on Kirby's unethical behavior
(Ottawa Citizen, August 2006)
Senator Kirby's business is good
(Ottawa Citizen, December 2005)
Kirby's Extendicare Trades
(Ottawa Citizen/National Post, September 2004)
Kirby's Bad Judgement
(Montreal Gazette Editorial, September 2004)
Canadian Health Coalition calls for investigation of Kirby
(Ottawa Citizen, September 2004)
(listen) CPAC Interview: Michael McBane &
Liberal Senator Michael Kirby
UPDATE -- Chaoulli decision
Senators ask Supreme Court to strike down Medicare
Information on the Chaoulli case | Chaoulli Update
Concerned Canadian citizens arrive at the Supreme Court on a
double-decker bus to symbolize the threat of two-tier health care
posed by the controversial Chaoulli case (Ottawa, June 8, 2004)
Canadian Health Coalition response to the new
report by Senators Michael Kirby and Wilbert Keon
(Canadian Health Coalition, September 2004)
Former central bank governor questions
proposal for competition in Medicare
(Canadian Press, September 2004)
Click here to download the Kirby-Keon report
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Senators ask Supreme Court to strike down Medicare
Information on the Chaoulli case | Chaoulli Case Update
The Kirby Committee Report
A Recipe for Commercialization and Privatization
(listen) CPAC Interview: Michael McBane & Michael Kirby
For-Profit Health Care: Expensive, Inefficient and Inequitable
Dr. Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Presentation to the Kirby Senate Committee Studying Health Care
Extendicare is Not a Model for Medicare
Canadian Health Coalition Brief to the Standing Senate Committee on
Social Affairs, Science and Technology, December 2001
======== More on Senator Kirby's Conflict ========
Senator Kirby's Conflict
By Michael McBane
The Hill Times (October 28, 2002)
Kirby's Committee and the Private Profiteers
By Michele Lansberg
Toronto Star (April 27-28, 2002)
They're Prying Open Medicare
By Frances Russell
Winipeg Free Press (December 21, 2001)
Senator Should Quit Committee
By Lyle Stewart
Montreal Gazette (December 14, 2001)
Senator Kirby's conflict of interest
By Michael McBane
The Hill Times (December 10, 2001)
========= More on Kirby & Extendicare =========
Nursing home group put on the block
(Globe and Mail, February 2006)
Nursing home faces lawsuit in man's death
(Wisconsin Pioneer Press, April 2005)
Extendicare Homes to pay $2.3 Million in largest Wisconsin
settlement over nursing home violations
(Wisconsin Politics, February 2005)
Nursing home care under fire
(Sudbury Star, September 2004)
Extendicare sells nursing facility in British Columbia
and operations in Arkansas
(Canadian Press, September 2004)
State revokes license of Extendicare to operate nursing home
(Associated Press, June 2004)
Nursing Home Series: Six-Part Exposé by Paul McKay
(Ottawa Citizen, April-May 2003)
Reality Check on Senators Kirby and Keon
(Canadian Health Coalition, 2002)
Report of a Study to Review Levels of Service and
Responses to Need in a Sample of Ontario Long Term
Care Facilities and Selected Comparators
(PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, December 2001)
CBC Marketplace Exposé on Extendicare (November 2001)
Merchant Navy Coalition For Equality Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Veteran Affairs (Ottawa, November 2001)
ABSTRACT | Does investor ownership of
nursing homes compromise the quality of Care ?
(American Journal for Public Health, September 2001)
Relationship Between Nursing Homes, Ontario Government Questioned (CBC, March 2001)
Public funds are for patients, not profits!