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	Don Mazankowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mazankowski was born to parents of Polish descent.
		Long interested in politics, Mazankowski became an important member of the Albertan Progressive Conservative Party, and in the 1968 federal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vegreville, Alberta.
		Mazankowski did not run in the 1993 election that saw his party reduced to two seats in the House of Commons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Mazankowski (444 words)

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	Don Mazankowski -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mazankowski was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Viking, Alberta) Viking, Alberta to parents of (The property of being smooth and shiny) Polish descent.
		Mazankowski retired from politics on June 7, 1993 and when (Click link for more info and facts about Kim Campbell) Kim Campbell began Prime Minister two weeks later Mazankowski was replaced as Finance Minister by (Click link for more info and facts about Gilles Loiselle) Gilles Loiselle.
		Mazankowski did not run in the (Click link for more info and facts about 1993 election) 1993 election that saw his party reduced to two seats in the (The lower house of the British parliament) House of Commons, instead leaving for the private sector and serving on corporate boards.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/don_mazankowski.htm (641 words)

	The Alberta Order of Excellence - Members
		Don was born in Viking, Alberta to U.S. immigrant parents of Polish descent.
		Don was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000 and has received an Honourary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Technical University of Nova Scotia and an Honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta.
		Don Mazankowski was born in Viking, Alberta on April 27, 1935.
	www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca /aoe/mazankowski.cfm (889 words)

	1980 Election and Energy Policy Articles
		Don Mazankowsky has tried his best but many of the people he's had doing studies, Hugh Horner, for instance, have made their stands known on various policies even before they've been appointed.
		Don Mazankowsky is a fine fellow, friendly, one of the active ones, said Mr.
		Mazankowski is the Progressive Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Vegreville where he had represented his constituents for the last 12 years.
	www.smokylake.com /history/politics/1980election.htm (3809 words)

	Don Mazankowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Right Honourable Donald Frank Mazankowski, PC, OC, AOE (born July 27, 1935, in Viking, Alberta) was a Canadian politician who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney.
		Mazankowski erturned to the private sector, and served on corporate boards.
		Mazankowski is currently a director or trustee for a number of Canadian companies, including Weyerhaeuser Co., ATCO Ltd., Shaw Communications Inc., and Power Corporation of Canada.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Don-Mazankowski.htm (474 words)

	PM caves to privatizing premiers, appoints Mazankowski
		OTTAWA — Letting Don Mazankowski chair a federal health care advisory council would be disastrous for public health care and a clear sign the federal government is caving to privatization pressure from the provinces, says Canada’s largest union.
		Don Mazankowski will put his shoulder to the wheel and push along with them, helping to dismantle Medicare.
		The Mazankowski report, written by a ’blue ribbon’ panel that included many pro-privatization members, advocates shifting the costs of health care to individuals or opening up opportunities for for-profit providers and private insurers.
	www.cupe.ca /www/news/3703 (525 words)

	articles-April2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mazankowski argued that as long as private health services maintain the same rules and the same standards as public services, the two can work in tandem to deliver health care.
		Mazankowski argued that if the standards of a health-care provider fell, or they charged too much for services, they would go out of business putting the two types of services on equal footing.
		Mazankowski was a former deputy prime minister who wrote a controversial report in Alberta in January urging major health reforms, including delisting services, a debit card to monitor people's use of services, more private involvement in medicare and requiring patients to pay more of their health costs.
	www.tommydouglas.ca /articles/articles-apr02.htm (15452 words)

	1st-Ministers-Mazankowski, 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		OTTAWA (CP) - Don Mazankowski, a former Conservative cabinet minister seen by some as an advocate of private health care, is being touted as a candidate to head a proposed federal-provincial council on health reform.
		Mazankowski, former finance minister under Brian Mulroney, said he hadn't heard anything about his potential new post except from news reports.
		Mazankowski conducted a major inquiry into health reform for the Alberta government, recommending the selling of hospitals to private investors and that some medical services be removed from medicare coverage.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/health/030205/x020521A.html (332 words)

	CNW Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mazankowski is a well-respected dealmaker in the private sector and equally influential in public policy circles.
		Mazankowski's business and government experience strengthens our Firm's ability to provide strategic counsel to business and government, helping them work together to complete corporate and mixed corporate and government projects that will benefit all Canadians." During his 25 years as a Member of Parliament, Mr.
		Mazankowski for his distinguished contribution to the quality of public policy and public management in Canada.
	www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/September2004/07/c6951.html (548 words)

	Mazankowski pushes for-profit care
		Mazankowski’s vision is to eliminate any effective government role from health care, save a funding role.
		Don Mazankowski was federal minister of privatization in the Mulroney cabinet.
		Mazankowski is also a director of several private insurance corporations including health giant Great-West Lifeco Inc. The insurance industry stands to benefit directly from many of the council’s proposed ’reforms.’; Mazankowski is also a director of a corporation with close Chrétien connections, the Power Corporation.
	www.cupe.ca /www/57/1530 (786 words)

	Mazankowski is the wrong man for the job
		EDMONTON — The federal government’s decision to name Don Mazankowski as chair of a new national agency dealing with health care issues would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous, says Les Steel President of the Alberta Federation of Labour.
		"Don Mazankowski is a privatizer, plain and simple, so he can’t be trusted to defend our public health care system," says Steel.
		If the federal government is using Mazankowski’s appointment as a bargaining chip to win support from Alberta for a new national health accord, Steel says they are being short-sighted and unhelpful to the cause of preserving Medicare.
	www3.telus.net /public/afl/newsreleases/feb05_03.html (459 words)

	eye - NEWS: Dear Tories: You blew it, business boys! - 03.18.93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Mazankowski droned on, spouting statistic after statistic, he painted a picture of a Canada made all the stronger by having had the Conservatives run it for the past eight years.
		Then Mazankowski got into the fat part of his diatribe, the stuff about how right the world was when he first arrived in Ottawa in 1965.
		Until that moment, I kind of thought Mazankowski was just a stuffed doll, a sort of Ukrainian Michael Wilson, but he exploded in animation.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.18.93/NEWS/cit0318.htm (838 words)

	stalbertgazette.com: Editorial
		The new Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute is either being taken as an omen of things to come or as a sign that the province’s drive to expand health care privatization is losing steam.
		For those who feared Mazankowski’s background in privatization and his seat on the board of a large insurance company would manifest in the Americanization of Alberta’s public health care system, the report was fuel for their fear.
		To them, giving the heart institute the Mazankowski moniker is a poke in the chest from the Tory higher-ups and a sign that the institute may well operate under those ideals Mazankowski holds so dear.
	www.stalbertgazette.com /news/2005/0511/ed.htm (473 words)

	Don Mazankowski - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Don Mazankowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Don Mazankowski - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Don Mazankowski.
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		Mazankowski is currently a director or trustee for a number of Canadian companies, including Weyerhaeuser Co., ATCO Ltd., Shaw Communications Inc., and Power Corporation of Canada, among others.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Don-Mazankowski.html (438 words)

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		On Jan. 8, Don Mazankowski delivered his report on reform of Alberta's health care system.
		Mazankowski had invited the government to cross a minefield, armed only with a map and a divining rod.
		If a province can successfully argue that the reforms it proposes are consistent with the Act, as Alberta has done with the Mazankowski report, then the talisman's charm works in the opposite direction.
	andrewcoyne.com /columns/NationalPost/2002/20020125.html (747 words)

	CBC News:Leadership stalled Tories/Alliance talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mazankowski said the Tory and Alliance negotiators had reached agreement on a number of fundamental issues, but stumbled when it came to deciding how the leader of a new party would be chosen.
		With Mazankowski at the news conference were Tory Leader Peter MacKay and the other two members of the negotiating team, former Ontario premier Bill Davis and Conservative House leader Loyola Hearn.
		Both MacKay and Mazankowski said they believe it is possible that the discussions can continue and build on progress already made.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/09/30/right_notunite030930 (314 words)

	PROFITguide.com \| PROFITmagazine \| Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		General manager Don Mazankowski, an avid drummer and son of the former federal finance minister, knew he had to act quickly before investors could pull the plug.
		Mazankowski, who had joined Ayotte in 1997, saw selling online as a way of serving the U.S. market without the expense of a large dealer network — which wasn't working anyway.
		Mazankowski has cut the company's losses to just $12,000 for the nine months ending November 2000, from over $300,000 a year earlier.
	ms.profitguide.com /magazine/issues_article.asp?ID=448 (775 words)

	Mazankowski’s plan for health care will hurt us all, says AFL
		The Council, chaired by Mulroney-era cabinet minister Don Mazankowski, is recommending that a special panel be established to de-list an unspecified number of services currently covered by Medicare.
		Premier Klein has welcomed Mazankowski’s recommendations and promised that they will act as a blueprint for health care reform in Alberta in the coming years.
		In the comments he made before the Senate’s traveling health commission, Davis even went so far as to suggest that corporations — which benefit so handsomely as a result of not having to pay for private health insurance — should be required to pay a special tax to help cover the cost of Medicare.
	www3.telus.net /public/afl/LabourNews/dec01-2.html (651 words)

	Alberta Association of Registered Nurses: News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mazankowski shared his perspective on the role of nurses in a reformed health care system and answered questions from the audience of registered nurses.
		”While we support some recommendations of the Mazankowski Report, such as introducing an electronic health information system, developing alternate payment systems for physicians and establishing clear performance targets for the health care system, we are concerned about recommendations such as increased private for-profit delivery of services, given the lack of research evidence supporting these proposals.”
		The luncheon was one of the many activities being held around the province during National Nurses Week, May 6 to 12, 2002.
	www.nurses.ab.ca /newsrel/mazankowski2.html (266 words)

	Mazankowski says don't leave delisting to politicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Don Mazankowski said Thursday that when he recommended an expert panel should review which services should be removed from medicare coverage, he meant it should be able to make binding decisions that politicians can't overturn.
		Earlier this week, Mazankowski issued a report recommending Albertans pay more for health in a system that includes more private-sector service providers.
		The Edmonton Sun reported it had learned that Mazankowski refused to accept his $7,500 retainer or any daily fees to which he was entitled.
	www.canoe.ca /Health0201/11_report-sun.html (270 words)

	Capital Health honours a great Canadian
		The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute will build on Don Mazankowski's legacy and commitment to Albertans and Canadians.
		Don Mazankowski was elected in 1968 as a member of parliament for Vegreville, Alberta and served as a cabinet minister under two prime ministers and as deputy prime minister from 1986 to 1993.
		He was founding chair of the Institute of Health Economics, chair of the Premier's Advisory Council Report on Health Care (The Mazankowski Report) as well as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta, and is currently a director for a number of major Canadian corporations.
	www.albertaheartinstitute.ca /news/news_releases/Mazankowski_named.htm (462 words)

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		"Don is an outstanding Canadian with a long and distinguished career in public service and corporate Canada," he added.
		Mazankowski was a Member of the Parliament of Canada from 1968 to 1993 and held a number of Cabinet positions, including Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and President of the Privy Council.
		Mazankowski is a director of a number of national and international Corporations.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2004/04/05/0001130319-04-000224/section2.asp (333 words)

	CBC News - Mazankowski report prescribes health care changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first shot in the battle over health care in Canada was fired in Alberta on Tuesday with the release of a new report that recommends sweeping changes to the province's health care system.
		Mazankowski said his report doesn't recommend any services be delisted.
		Mazankowski has been accused of a conflict of interest, since he is a member of the board of Great-West Lifeco Inc., which owns an insurance company.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2002/01/08/alta_report020108 (799 words)

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