Canadian medicare is under attack. Nefarious legislation, insufficient funding and weak leadership are causing this country’s once-cherished public health-care system increasingly to buckle. This week, U.S. dark money-funded think tanks are holding a conference on how to break it permanently.

Jointly organized by SecondStreet.org, the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Montreal Economic Institute, the two-day event set to begin today at the exclusive Albany Club in Toronto is rather innocuously titled “The Future of Health-Care Reform.”

In reality, the event is both a showcase for privatization and a strategy discussion for importing U.S.-style, two-tier health care into Canada. For these special interests the intent is clear: “reform” means ruin.