Further undermining the federal health care deal, the buzz is now about where the government will find the promised health funds. In one ill-advised scheme, Public Works Minister Scott Brison is considering selling off hundreds of federal office buildings and then leasing them back from the private sector. Brison, a Nova Scotia native, should know better. Perhaps someone needs to remind him that lease-back schools in his province were a financial disaster. The provinces Conservative government cancelled the P3 school program, revealing it was costing considerably more than publicly financed, owned and operated schools.
