US complains about outsourcing while Canadians seem oblivious to the fact that our "socialist" health care system is busy outsourcing some management functions to private US firms...The Liberal BC govt. is planning to outsource administration of the health plan to either Maximus or IBM both US firms.
Cheers, Ken Hanly Full article at....http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F89AA813-E86E-41F7-905A-FFC309F 5CAE7.htm Canadian trade unions are joining the long list of groups angry at the US Patriot Act, the package of stiff anti-terror measures introduced after the 11 September attacks. The law's long reach is on a collision course for the first time with Canadian privacy legislation, and the clash could cost US firms millions of dollars in lost business. The Act permits the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to demand companies secretly turn over information that may be relevant to their investigations. But the government employees union in British Columbia, Canada's western-most province, believes those powers could be used to access private details of Canadians held in databases managed by American companies or Canadian subsidiaries. That would contravene Canadian privacy laws that strictly regulate access and disclosure of private information
