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  1. Abandoning the Public Interest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
  2. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  3. Canadian Environmental Law Association
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information on legal and policy aspects of environmental issues.
  4. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  5. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
  6. False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
  7. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
  8. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  9. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
  10. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  11. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  12. Privatization
    A global disease
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  13. Privatization and Health Care
    The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
  14. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  15. The The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
  16. Privatization The great privati$ation grab
    New Internationalist April 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
  17. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  18. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
  19. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
  20. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
  21. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  22. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000

Experts on Privatization in the Sources Directory

  1. Bennett Jones LLP
  2. Brock University
  3. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
  4. Canadian Labour Congress
  5. Canadian Union of Public Employees
  6. Congress of Union Retirees of Canada
  7. Connexions Information Sharing Services
  8. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
  9. Goodmans LLP
  10. Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  11. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
  12. KPMG Management Services LP
  13. McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  14. National Union of Public and General Employees
  15. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
  16. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  17. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
  18. Society of Energy Professionals

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