Truth or consequences? The law and politics of the gats health care debate

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• Mark Crawford is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Northern British Columbia. His published commentaries on constitutional law and politics and electoral reform have appeared in the University of Toronto Faculty Law Review and in several newspapers. Currently, his research focuses on the interface between domestic policy and international trade, and related questions of public philosophy. Earlier drafts of this paper were presented at the Canadian Foreign Policy conference at Carleton University, 6–7 November 2003, and the conference, “WTO and Beyond”, hosted by Simon Fraser University 15–16 July 2004. The author is grateful to participants at both conferences, especially William Dymond and Christopher Kukucha, as well as the Editor of this Journal and three anonymous reviewers, for their very helpful comments.
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