Representatives of media are invited to attend the business luncheon of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, at noon. André Marcheterre, president, Merck Frosst Canada, will be guest speaker. Thanks to a long tradition of coordinating economic development policies with health-care needs, Quebec now has the critical mass needed in the health sciences to compete both nationally and internationally. The creation of an internationally competitive environment is a significant achievement for Quebec. Global competitiveness is nevertheless accelerating. The action plan developed by Montreal International and the Quebec government's drug policies is recent examples, but are they enough? Collectively, not only to ensure the health-care system meets the needs of the public but also enable the biopharma industry to become an engine of sustainable economic development - a guarantee of stable revenues that will help maintain an efficient public health system

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