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	Roy Romanow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roy Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, QC, LL.B. (born August 12, 1939), Canadian politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (1991–2001), was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
		Romanow's government was more conservative than previous NDP administrations, and was considered a practitioner of what became known as the Third Way in the mould of the British Labour Party under Tony Blair.
		Romanow retired in 2001, and was replaced as leader of the NDP and Premier by Lorne Calvert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Romanow (644 words)

	Current Committee - Security Intelligence Review Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ROY ROMANOW, P.C., O.C., Q.C. Roy Romanow was appointed on November 13, 2003, as a Member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), an agency which provides Parliament and the Canadian public with an external review of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
		Roy Romanow was born, raised, and educated in Saskatoon.
		Romanow was appointed a Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, and is also a visiting Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.
	www.sirc-csars.gc.ca /bios/rromanow_e.html (277 words)

	Romanow, Roy John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Romanow, Roy John, politician, premier of Saskatchewan (b at Saskatoon 1939).
		Romanow became provincial secretary (1971-72) and attorney general in the Allan BLAKENEY government in 1971.
		Romanow was able to avoid the public resentment of the Accord, largely due to his reputation and his success at controlling the deficit.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006918 (418 words)

	Edited Evidence * HEAL * Number 028 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roy Romanow: With some modification to your comments, in my view, I say the primary health care model and the special targeted $2.5 billion, which now is part of the reform fund, do not prohibit the inclusion of people who are in naturopathic work or chiropractic work.
		Roy Romanow: I don't know what the federal government's approach is or what their studies show, but we based our recommendation on the evidence and the research we uncovered.
		Roy Romanow: I'm with you on the latter sentiment.
	www.parl.gc.ca /committee/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=28201 (12662 words)

	NIH: The Gospel According to Roy
		Romanow delivered the goods, a vast yet inevitably superficial report which, regardless of the soundness of its recommendations, is necessarily so sketchy that any of its recommendations or analyses is likely to arouse indignant objections and observations about their irrelevance or impracticality.
		Romanow's report we find that it is a throwback to an era of political thinking which one had hoped we had left behind.
		Romanow has drawn his inspiration from the forerunner of his political party; that forerunner was the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
	www.newimprovedhead.com /romanow.htm (2013 words)

	Romanow joins University as senior policy fellow
		Romanow will take an unpaid leave to work on the commission, but both the university appointments and the work on the health care commission point to Romanow’s expertise in public policy and his desire to continue to share his 30 years of political expertise.
		Romanow’s expertise in China will be particularly valuable as the U of R develops a new program to train Chinese government executives in the development of public policy.
		Romanow, who was also on the trade mission, said he has been to China twice since his first visit in 1979, when he spent four weeks in that country.
	www.uregina.ca /commun/report/2001/apr0601/romanow.html (470 words)

	Roy Romanow at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Between 1971 and 1982, Roy Romanow served as deputy premier of Saskatchewan and from 1987 to 2001 he led the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party.
		Romanow's government was more conservative than previous NDP administrations and was considered a practitioner of what became known as the Third Way in the mold of the British Labour Party under Tony Blair.
		Romanow retired in 2001, and was replaced as Premier by Lorne Calvert.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Roy_Romanow.html (368 words)

	Roy Romanow Lecture \| SJU
		This is why Roy Romanow chose to title his seminal report on the future of medicare Building on Values.
		Romanow will speak to the notion that what we owe each other as citizens is best illustrated by our public medicare and that the need to secure its future is essential to sustaining the very essence of our nation.
		Romanow is a Senior Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, and Visiting Fellow at Queen's University.
	www.sju.ca /centre/speakers/romanow.html (201 words)

	injusticebusters 1999 > > Roy Romanow: The King of Saskatchewan Bad Lawyers
		Roy still has a chance to do the right thing: admit the mistakes that were made, demonstrate that steps are being taken to stop further such mistakes, and settle now while the dollar figures are still manageable.
		Roy Romanow served his time as Attorney General, and was A-G while David Milgaard was charged, tried, wrongly convicted and began to serve his 22 years.
		Romanow led the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party to a 55 seat majority government, and assumed the duties of Premier on November 1, 1991.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Roy.htm (1791 words)

	Edited Committee Evidence * HEAL * Number 060 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roy Romanow, the commissioner of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, a subject that is engaging the minds of all Canadians these days.
		Roy Romanow: On the latter issue, I want to report my perception—it's not a fact yet, but I strongly believe this—that amongst the health caregivers and the professionals themselves, there has been quite a noticeable change in their attitude toward cooperation.
		Roy Romanow: I think I can, and I think we can find the solution through the public dialogue, which is educative by its own nature; and by trying not to straitjacket, but by focusing the discussion along the values-based perspectives.
	www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/HEAL/Meetings/Evidence/healev60-e.htm (10058 words)

	Roy Romanow to be granted Honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of New Brunswick Saint John -- October 11, 2005 - ...
		Roy Romanow was born, raised, and educated in Saskatoon where he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with Arts and Law Degrees.
		Romanow's government introduced a number of fiscal, economic and social reforms including an expansion of the Action Plan for Children, the introduction of the Building Independence strategy to help move families off social assistance, and enhancements to the provincial health care system.
		On April 4 2001, Roy Romanow was also appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to head the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada to recommend policies and measures to ensure the long-term sustainability of a universally accessible, high quality, publicly-administered health care system.
	www.unb.ca /news/view.cgi?id=857 (528 words)

	e.Peak (5/3/2001) news: SFU courts Roy Romanow
		Roy Romanow, former premier of Saskatchewan, has recently been asked to serve as chair to a proposed post-graduate program in public policy at SFU.
		Romanow has a long history with the New Democratic Party in Saskatchewan, and was named leader of the party in 1987.
		While the proposal was made to Romanow at the beginning of February, the former Saskatchewan premier has still not given SFU a firm answer.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2001-1/issue8/ne-romanow.html (429 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Memo to Commissioner Roy Romanow: A mind is like a parachute, it works best when it's open By Walter Robinson web posted July 1, 2002 Buried amongst recent G8 coverage in most newspapers were a few articles about Roy Romanow's recent speeches and responses to studies gauging the Canadian appetite for health care reform.
		Romanow's report this fall will address the unsustainable pay-as-you-go funding structure of health care, recommend modernization of the Canada Health Act, come to grips with demographic realities and facilitate an expansion of high-tech medicine that will raise Canada from it's current third-world ranking in this area, we should nonetheless prepare ourselves for a letdown.
		Romanow is selectively considering the evidence, both domestic and international, in what is increasingly becoming a foregone conclusion of the limited vision and direction his November report will offer.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0702/0702cdnhealth.txt (591 words)

	GE Food Alert Campaign Center - Headlines
		Roy Romanow, Premier of Saskatchewan, writes that opponents of biotechnology mislead the public when they attach the "Frankenfood" label to Canadian agricultural products such as canola.
		Romanow says that food created from genetically altered crops grown on the Canadian prairies didn't originate from some madman's spider-webbed laboratory; it passed through one of the best government regulatory systems in the world.
		Romanow goes on to say that it is easy to see why we remain so excited about this science, despite critics and their scare tactics.
	www.gefoodalert.org /News/news.cfm?News_ID=2487 (724 words)

	Roy Romanow applauds national health council launch
		Saskatoon - Roy Romanow, who headed the royal commission on the future of health care, is pleased that the federal government is going ahead with a national health council.
		Romanow says all that the council needs now is a proper mandate to move ahead with the task of rebuilding and protecting Canada's public health care system.
		Romanow says it is important to recruit council members for the qualities they bring to the job rather than the political positions they hold.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2003/n11de03b.htm (206 words)

	USW Canada: Building on Values: Steelworker Response to the Romanow Report on Medicare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Romanow’s Royal Commission allowed Canadians to express their feelings about Medicare, which they did in the thousands by way of briefings, presentations, songs and poems to Commissioner Romanow.
		Romanow recommends a Catastrophic Drug Transfer should be used to reduce disparities in coverage across the country by covering a portion of the rapidly growing costs of provincial and territorial drug plans.
		Romanow specifically states that the right to regulate health care policy should not be subject to claims from foreign companies.
	www.uswa.ca /program/content/1158.php?&lan=en (2064 words)

	Government Relations \| Office of Protocol and Honours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roy J. Romanow, S.O.M. A Saskatchewan lawyer, Roy Romanow was born and educated in Saskatoon.
		Romanow introduced a number of fiscal, economic and social reforms including an expansion of the Action Plan for Children, introducing the Building Independence strategy to help families get off social assistance, and providing enhancements to the provincial health care system.
		Romanow received the 2003 PanAmerican Health Organization Award for excellence and leadership in the area of health administration and management.
	www.gr.gov.sk.ca /Protocol/Honours/SOM_romanow.htm (338 words)

	2003 Honorary Doctorate - Roy Romanow
		Romanow was premier, a post he would hold for 10 more years.
		Mais la contribution la plus importante de Roy Romanow a commencé par une série de grandes réformes apportées au système de soins de santé de la Saskatchewan, notamment en privilégiant les notions de prévention et de mieux-être.
		Romanow has embraced this infectious optimism throughout his life and his work, making us all the better for his efforts.
	www.uottawa.ca /rector/citations/2003/citation_romanow.html (720 words)

	Briarpatch Magazine: Resuscitating the system: Saskatchewan, the birthplace of medicare, must now take a stand to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roy Romanow, head of the Commission on the Future of Medicare, tabled his long awaited report, "Building on Values, The Future of Health Care in Canada," on November 28, 2002.
		Romanow notes that as long as the system is prepared to change to meet needs and expectations, Canadians appear willing to pay more for health care and do not want access to health services determined by one's ability to pay.
		Romanow believes that Canadians should have access to an integrated continuum of care no matter where they live, 24 hours a day and recommends a Primary Health Transfer to move primary care out of the project phase.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQV/is_1_32/ai_103034441 (1335 words)

	Health care is not for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Romanow states in his report, the problem with the argument that there should be less government and less government money in health care is that "they are focused on the cost to governments, not Canadians."
		But while Romanow has been targeted by the privatizing right, some critics from labour and health care activist circles — while supporting the call for more funding — worry that it is too little, too late.
		Roy Romanow and Jean Chrétien have a history in Quebec politics.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2002/392-02-Romanow.html (983 words)

	Official site of Canadian Idol - CTV's search for Canada's best.
		Roy Romanow, who is leading a commission looking into the future of Canada's health-care system, says Ottawa should set a "minimum threshold" of federal funding that should never be dropped.
		Romanow said that while recent federal budgets have seen the beginning of improved funding, Ottawa still contributes less than it once did, and less than it should now.
		Romanow also doused cold water on the premise that health-care spending in Canada is out of line with that in other industrialized countries.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/idol/CTVNews/1037872630460_232 (601 words)

	My $0.02 Worth On Romanow's $15,000,000.00 Report
		As that is simply not the case, then Romanow’s statement is rendered as being nothing short of asinine.
		While the Romanow Report dwells on public administration, a real service would have been provided if he had bothered to review how public and private institutions might have been able to function so as to provide a higher level of health care for all.
		I agree that it should be tougher for the pharmaceutical industry to have near perpetual patents on drugs than through slight revisions made to existing formulas, along with the practice of pre-emptive lawsuits that effectively keep such drugs out of the hands of generic drug makers.
	www3.telus.net /public/tmgarj/Archives/arch021202.htm (978 words)

	SFU Gerontology Research Centre and Programs
		On November 1, 1991, he was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, a post he held until the spring of 2001, at which time he retired from active political life.On April 4 2001, Roy was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to head the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada.
		In early 2003, he received the Economic Justice Award from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation of Toronto and was recognized by the Pan American Health Organization, receiving their Administration Award for his work on the Health Commission and his commitment to human rights and justice initiatives throughout his political career.
		In late 2003, Roy was appointed to the Privy Council of Canada, and was named to the membership of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
	www.sfu.ca /grc/Friesen/Friesen2004/bio_romanow.html (264 words)

	Roy Romanow to head national inquiry on medicare
		Ottawa - Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow will head a national commission on the future of medicare, reporting back to the federal government by November 2002 on the best way to reform the country's trouble-plagued health care system.
		Romanow said Tuesday he is open to all ideas for medicare reform but he begins his task as someone who admires the five basic principles the Canada Health Act, including the principle of public administration.
		Romanow says he has no guarantee his recommendations will be adopted when he is finished.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2001/news_ap01/n05ap01a.htm (371 words)

	SFU News - Jan 23, 2003
		Unlike U.S. senate hearings or the typical parliamentary investigation, Roy Romanow and his minions held hearings in a number of cities and listened to almost everyone who wished to speak to them.
		Romanow had clearly read and considered the submissions each of us had written before the hearing.
		His most critical conclusion was that if provinces cannot do the job the federal government must assist, and that assistance will include the legitimate right of the nation-at-large to insist on certain standards and on the methods of their implementation.
	www.sfu.ca /mediapr/print/sfu_news/regular_features/comment01230301.htm (1096 words)

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