1. 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.
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
   Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
5. Profit is not the Cure
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Web site sponsored by the Council of Canadians to defend public health care. Turn off the sound when visiting this Web site; a badly misguided Web designer has saddled this site with sound effects apparently intended to drive users away so they never come back.
6. 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.
7. Take Care
   Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
   
8. 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.
9. Unsafe Practices
   Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   

Experts on Health Care Privatization in the Sources Directory

1. Ontario Nurses' Association