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Webster! : 1984-01-13

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster goes out to visit Mount Pleasant Health Centre’s Medical Clinic—BC’s first salaried doctor’s clinic—to investigate this model aimed at reducing skyrocketing medical costs facing the Social Credit government. Albert Burke and Fred Coates of PSAC Agricultural Unit reveal that federal meat inspection is at risk because of government changes to the responsibilities of meat inspectors. Gerald Green, a lawyer with Vancouver Community Legal Assistance Society, speaks about involuntarily committed mentally ill patients being forced to pay a daily charge.