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fc economist suntribune news saturday jan 12 2002 bymikeadler 1 staff writer his search for a platform to help his tories win ontario again took tony clement a longshot contender to be premier to a richmond hill coffee shop this week there he met john emery a gormley man who told him the next political wave this swelling resentment that is grow ing he called it will come from affluent boomers like himself over their frustrations with health care the answer to that is the answer to winning this election emery predicted during an infor mal wednesday night meeting emery a builder said boomers want their health care now and wont mind paying for it the perceived godgiven right to health care is a hazy idea that is bankrupting us he added acknowledging there are people who cant pay but i dont know if theyre that large a number clement ontarios health min ister treaded carefully a few hours earlier he had criticized ernie eves frontrunner in the race to replace mike harris for suggesting patients who can pay should get medical services faster thats two tier health care clement responded at the coffee shop he said britain has such a system and he does not want it here- they still have waits they still have unhappiness but clement said he favours making sure the private sector is staff photoerin reilly provincial tory leadership hopeful tony clement right chats with martin charney thornhill mpp tina molinari and sam ciccolirii at a local coffee shop wednesday evening part of the solution and with expectations of boomers retiring in a 30minutesorfree society that will mean more paid services at private clinics like thornhills shouldice surgery which treats hernias were a rich society if we as cit- izens want to spend more money on health care thats our right clement stressed he was talk ing about services not medically necessary such as cataract surgery and some uses of mri magnetic resonance imaging machines we clearly are moving to an era of choice being demanded and we have to accommodate that the brampton mpp suggested to kiral deliivanov a business student from richmond hill who said he once had to wait three months for an mri that hospi tals should use mri machines only for medicallynecessary services other users can go to a private clinic and incentives should be provided to establish such clinics clement said the option to pay cant come soon enough for emery all the people like me are getting older and there are millions of us he said later in an interview my wife died of cancer i spent two years walking through the halls of hospitals with her the system is broken clement just 40 and eager to put out the touches of gray in his hair is seeking the premiers post with a lowkey reconnection tour focused on updating the common sense revolution the underlying values behind two past tory sweeps of 905 rid ings tax cuts- smaller govern ment dont go out of style he said but ive drawn a conclusion that we are disconnected from the electorate interestingly clements plat form pledges to help family farms and curb urban sprawl i helped convince the premier that smart growth is the right strategy now we have to make it more than just rhetoric as municipal affairs minister he steadfastly refused jto freezedevel- opmient on the oak ridges moraine or introduce tougher rules to pro tect it but said he has been sensi tized to the landforms value he also admittedit was wrong for the province to see transit as solely a municipal responsibility weve now made amends on that clement supported in his run by thornhill mpp tina molinari also disagreed with fellows con tender jim flahertys promise to remove teachers rights to strike teacher contracts should be extended from three to four years but even if we had a nofstrike clause it is not beneath the unions to carry on this war of attri tion he said- x weve had this war for five years its getting a bit tiringfonthe rank and file proceeding with education reforms such as testing teachers will bring 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