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S. The seriousness of Canada's debt problem, the fact that a large fraction of this debt is held by foreigners and the fiscal threat implicit in the possibility of Quebec separation, are all sober truths about which much useful information emerged as speakers explored variations on the conference theme. ' According to an Economics Council study entitled One in Three, at a fixed retirement age of sixty-five, there will be one retired person for every two workers by 2031. Canadians should be weighing their options in the light of such information.

Others, such as Catherine Steele, aide to former Health Minister Jim Wilson, and Brian Patterson, aide to former Economic Development Minister Bill Saunderson, were let go without the usual parachutes into other positions. Senior staff who have departed for private-sector jobs include Mitch Patten, a former member of the premier's staff, and Mac Penny, one-time executive assistant to Health Minister Dave Johnson when he was chair of cabinet's management board. When Environment Minister Norm Sterling was tardy in bringing forward a mandatory vehicle emissions testing program he learned how with Harris' crew you can be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

That honour belongs to two people: •Leslie Noble—The Consensus Builder'. Noble campaigned in 1978 for New York Congressman Jack Kemp, an ardent free-marketeer and eventual vice-presidential candidate on the Bob Dole ticket in the 1996 American federal election. The self-employed co-owner of Strategy Corporation, a private public relations company located in the Ernst and Young Tower in downtown Toronto, Noble played a major role in drafting the Common Sense Revolution document. She helped run Mike Harris' successful 1995 provincial election campaign and is regarded as the conciliator of the Harris election team.