MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 17, 2006

Council of Canadians in Charlottetown to urge doctors to support medicare

WHAT:

Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians will be in Charlottetown August 20 to 23, during the Canadian Medical Association annual meeting, to demand that doctors take a stance against privatization of the health care system. The citizens’ advocacy organization will be joined by allies from the Canadian Health Coalition, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and Canadian Doctors for Medicare as they hold public events, provide educational material to doctors and speak to the media at this crucial meeting.

WHEN/ WHERE:

A Picnic for Public Health Care: (Free food and photo-ops)
Sunday, August 20 from noon to 2pm
Outside the Delta Hotel (18 Queen Street)

A Ceilidh for Medicare:
Presentations by: Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Linda Silas (Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions), Michael McBane (Canadian Health Coalition) and Danielle Martin (Canadian Doctors for Medicare)
August 21 at 7pm
Holy Redeemer Parish (7 Pond Street)

WHO:

Maude Barlow is the chairperson of the Council of Canadians and author of 15 books including Profit is Not the Cure, an examination of the history of medicare in Canada, and her most recent bestseller on Canada-U.S. relations, Too Close for Comfort; Canada’s Future within Fortress North America.

Guy Caron is the health care campaigner at the Council of Canadians.

For more information, please contact:
Dylan Penner, Media Officer, Council of Canadians: (613) 233-4487, ext. 249; 1-800-387-7177, ext. 249; .