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Acknowledgments
This book has benefitted from the generosity and helpfulness of a number of people. We would like to thank Kathryn Fierlback of the Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Pierre-Gerlier Forest, president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, for their insights regarding Canadian federalism and health care delivery. Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau in the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health at the University of Texas-Houston has been very helpful in providing insight into the role of the market in health care delivery systems. Raisa Deber of the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto has over a number of years shared very helpful perspectives regarding the workings of health care delivery in both Canada and Ontario. Wendy Armstrong, former president and CEO of the Alberta affiliate of the Consumer’s Association of Canada, also very generously offered her viewpoint with respect to parallel developments in Alberta. Former Canadian health minister Monique Bégin critiqued an earlier article that contained much of the thinking that developed into this book, and we benefited from her understanding of the federal political process leading to the passage of the Canada Health Act, presented in her published work on that period. This study also profited greatly from the insights into health care delivery issues