“Picard, you’re a hard man to ignore. But it’s well worth the effort.”

This pithy critique, delivered by an unnamed Canadian politician to André Picard, is now his unofficial bio, boasts The Globe and Mail’s veteran public health journalist and author. When Picard was honoured as the winner of the 2011 Hyman Solomon Journalism Award by the Public Policy Forum last year, he delivered a short but brilliant thank you speech that he called “The Five Mantras of Health Care Reform.”  Here’s the text of his important message: Continue reading →