| WHEREAS: |
Toronto residents and Canadians everywhere pride ourselves on the fact that Canada has provided universal, publicly accessible health care to its citizens for over 30 years; and |
| WHEREAS: |
the principles of the Canada Health Act are the basis upon which our public health system was formed and have provided public access to life saving and life enhancing care for over a generation; and |
| WHEREAS: |
Canadians are challenged as we have never been before to protect, restore and upgrade where necessary our public Medicare system; and |
| WHEREAS: |
the Toronto Board of Health recommend to Toronto City Council to delcare its support for Canada's public health care system and the principles of the Canada Health Act; and |
| WHEREAS: |
the Toronto Board of Health recommend to Toronto City Council to call upon the Romanow Commission, and federal and provincial governments to ensure that the principles of the Canada Health Act are maintained, that the public health care system be publicly delivered and upgraded where necessary, and that adequate public funding be provided to do so; and |
| WHEREAS: |
the Toronto Board of Health recommend to Toronto City Council to declare its support for the notion that health promotion, focusing on determinants of health, and disease prevention become the foundation of medicare as part of a national public health strategy and that public health programs be adequately funded; and |
| WHEREAS: |
the Toronto Board of Health recommend to Toronto City Council to proclaim May 15th, 2002 as Public Medicare Day in the City of Toronto. |
| NOW, |
| THEREFORE: |
I, Mayor Mel Lastman, on behalf of Toronto City Council and the 2.5 million people of our great City, do hereby proclaim May 15, 2002 as "Public Medicare Day" in the City of Toronto. |
