Honourable Allan Rock: Lives before Money

Nipawin - Saturday, October 20, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

protect
There is no room for protection of paper copy rights when we have to protect our own physical lives.

lawsuits
We applauded the South Africa's government when they allowed the breaking of copy rights of pharmaceutical transnationals to save the lives of millions of HIV infected people; people who couldn't have afforded the copy right protected prices of drugs. At that time South Africa and all Africa won as the transnationals discontinued their lawsuits against the Free Trade's infringement of paper copy rights.

threats
Friday we applaud the decision of Minister of Health Allan Rock who in the light of biological threats has decided to break the copy rights of the pharmaceutical transnational Bayer and buy a generic version of Cipro from Canadian pharmaceutical company Apotex.

Life
Life comes before money and again we compliment the sensitivity of Honourable Allan Rock in responding to bio-terrorism as he says

"We are ready, and this will make us more ready."

We are confident that the transnational Bayer will think over twice before launching a lawsuit against Health Canada.

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"Challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made ppatiently and repeatedly, day after day after day"-- Donella Meadows, author of The Limits to Growth

Ottawa faces lawsuit over anthrax-drug contract. Bayer denies federal claim it could not deliver enough pills, National Post, October 19, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011019/744365.html

Ottawa spending millions to fight bio-terrorism, CBC Canada, October 19, 2001 http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/10/19/rock_011019



Nipawin - Saturday, October 20, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

protect	There is no room for protection of paper copy rights when we have to protect our own physical lives.

lawsuits	We applauded the South Africa's government when they allowed the breaking of copy rights of pharmaceutical transnationals to save the lives of millions of HIV infected people; people who couldn't have afforded the copy right protected prices of drugs. At that time South Africa and all Africa won as the transnationals discontinued their lawsuits against the Free Trade's infringement of paper copy rights.

threats	Friday we applaud the decision of Minister of Health Allan Rock who in the light of biological threats has decided to break the copy rights of the pharmaceutical transnational *Bayer* and buy a generic version of *Cipro* from Canadian pharmaceutical company *Apotex*.

Life	Life comes before money and again we compliment the sensitivity of Honourable Allan Rock in responding to bio-terrorism as he says
	"We are ready, and this will make us more ready."
	We are confident that the transnational *Bayer* will think over twice before launching a lawsuit against Health Canada.

----------References:
	"Challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made ppatiently and repeatedly, day after day after day"-- Donella Meadows, author of *The Limits to Growth*

	Ottawa faces lawsuit over anthrax-drug contract. Bayer denies federal claim it could not deliver enough pills, National Post, October 19, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011019/744365.html

	Ottawa spending millions to fight bio-terrorism, CBC Canada, October 19, 2001 http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/10/19/rock_011019