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>Hi Michael,
>
>Would you kindly send this to the list serve.  I'm not a member of it so,
>as you can see below, it would not go out from my address.  A second
>opinion of sorts may be of some interest to someone on this list.  Thanks.
>Be well.
>
>
>Don
>
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>
>        Does anyone else out there get nervous in reading the post
>regarding the draft MAI, for reasons different from the author's
>intent?  The claim is made at one point that the contents "presently
>favour the rights of investors and corporations over those of individual
>citizens..."
>
>        However, a bit later on the author cites (approvingly!) the 96
>CPHA action statement on health promotion, one principle of which is as
>follows:
>
>"Individual liberties are respected, but priority is given to the common
>good when conflict arises."
>
>Who, exactly, is going to make the final decision when to ("respectfully")
>ignore individual liberties?  A governmental body or bureaucratic
>functionary, after public hearings, of course?  Will there be any
>"individual liberties" protected from being overruled for the common good?
>Which ones?  How about freedom of speech, if such a liberty leads to
>communications that offend some interest group?
>
>Do many of you have any individual liberties that you rather enjoy that
>you are not so anxious to surrender if the CPHA or anyone else decides
>are a lesser priority than the common good that suggests they be
>abrogated?
>
>Don Ardell
>
>
>
>
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>              ARDELL WELLNESS REPORT
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Une tres bonne journee.

Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.

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