The Avro Arrow Manipulation: Murdering Medicare

Synopsis: This historical and political fiction deals with two of Canada’s cultural icons, the Avro Arrow and the country’s government-run Medicare system. The former was killed long ago while the latter is chronically in intensive care. Set in the year 2009, the reader finds Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system threatened from within and without by political/business/media interests heavily influenced by clandestine lobbying that is being carried out on behalf of certain American healthcare and pharmaceutical interests, with the specific aim of crippling the Canadian system and replacing it with an American-style, for-profit structure. Many of the same coercive techniques that were previously employed to help shut down the Avro Arrow fighter-interceptor program are being employed again, and are even being directed by some of the very same shadowy characters. However, from the startling contents of a mysterious package delivered to his place of work, Ken ! Simpson, a prize-winning senior investigative reporter for America’s most respected newspaper, learns that he has deeply personal -as well as professional- reasons to delve into the true goings-on that brought down the Avro Arrow program a half-century earlier and are now being used to usurp both the American and Canadian healthcare systems.