INTEGRATE THIS! Risky Business: The SPP and Harmonization of Health Regulations

Workshop 16

Risky Business: The SPP and Harmonization of Health Regulations

Description

By attempting to harmonize health policies between Canada and the United States, the Security and Prosperity Partnership would sound the death knell for the application of the precautionary principle in Canada, and would legitimize a risk management approach where the large corporations would manage large profits while leaving to Canadians to bear the risk.

Leaders

Michael McBane, Coordinator, Canadian Health Coalition
Michael has 20 years of experience working in coalitions on issues relating to Medicare, privatization, commercialization, public health regulation, food and drug safety, the Precautionary Principle, international trade and economic justice. He is the author of Ill-Health Canada: Putting Food and Drug Company Profits Ahead of Safety, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in 2005.

Doris Grinspun, Executive Director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Dorris is currently a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at York University in North York, Ontario and acts as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is also an associate member of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Toronto, an affiliate member of the Centre for Health Studies at York University, and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC) at York University.

Guy Caron, Health Care Campaigner, Council of Canadians

Language

Workshop presented in English. Questions in either English, French, Spanish or Hebrew.

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