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To: Betty Jo
Here is a little gem I came across:

SW reader of the week

Socialist Worker salutes our "reader of the week": Dr. Claude Lajeunesse, president of Toronto’s Ryerson University.

It seems that Claude was so impressed by an article in our last issue that he had it clipped and faxed it out to all the members of Ryerson’s Board of Governors.

The article in question was a letter by Alex Lisman, VP Education on Ryerson Students’ Administrative Council, denouncing William Leggett, principal of Queen’s University. Leggett, point man on the drive for fully deregulated university tuition, is therein accurately described as "an incompetent ideologue".

We had no idea Claude found time in his busy day to read Socialist Worker, and look forward to receiving his subscription request, at the "supporters" rate no doubt.

His endorsement is surely a strong signal to Ryerson students to read the paper on a regular basis.

And we appreciate Claude bringing us to the attention of the movers and shakers on the Board of Governors. That includes John Craig Eaton (yes, that Eaton); Lynne Golding (Bay Street corporate lawyer and wife of Ontario PC leadership hopeful Tony Clement); Harriet Stairs (Executive VP, Bank of Montreal) and Ramesh K. Zacharias (CEO of Med-Emerg International Inc., a corporation lobbying hard for privatized health care).

All these folks are major contributors to the Ontario Tory party, but we hope they’ll think of us in our next fund drive. Their pocket change will probably suffice.

45 posted on 06/10/2003 4:52:18 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Tag line: a thin cord used to catch the species of fish known commonly as the "Tag")
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To: TaxRelief
Zacharias, have you googled him?

I'm not into Canadian politics , so much is lost to me, but yes, I can see why he might want privatized health care.

But Med-Emerg does benifit from both sides of the street.

Did you know that MedEmerg has contracts with the Defence Forces of Canada?

Also, Med Emerg is "International Inc".

A whole lot of irons in a whole lot of fires,and the terrs and the funders are right in there.
54 posted on 06/10/2003 6:58:36 PM PDT by Betty Jo
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