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Today is the deadline for members of Congress to ratify or reject Prime Minister Jacobi’s Executive Order to upgrade Health Canada to a Q5 company. Congress is currently voting on this issue in the open door congress section of the forums and as the numbers stand currently, it looks as though Jacobi’s EO will be ratified.

The saga of Health Canada has raised some debate among citizens with two major issues standing out. The first point that is raised is that with two existing Q5 hospitals already placed (Ontario and Alberta), eCanada may not require more. This argument is countered by those who suggest that eCanada could recoup some of the expenditure on this upgrade by selling those Q5 hospitals produced by Health Canada that are not needed in eCanada. This seemed to be a very logical option, with the only question remaining: could Health Canada produce Q5 hospitals at a price that would be competitive globally?

The initial calculations submitted to Congress by PM Jacobi suggested that it would cost the eCanadian government too much to produce Q5 hospitals. Jacobi estimated a production cost of approximately 583 Gold which was, even before factoring the actual cost of the upgrade, far too much to be profitable.

However, new calculations submitted by Congressman Gofarman, seem to suggest that by using very high skill workers, with tightly controlled wages, Health Canada could produce Q5 hospitals at a much more competitive rate. Gofarman has posted the following in the forum discussion section: “After discussion with Dean22 and investigating the situation, Canada can produce a Q5 hospital in 15 days for 250g with a purchase cost of ~350g we will be able to pay off the Upgrade fees in a month if we elect to sell the Q5 hospitals. This is a great investment we just need to control the wages of the people that work for Health Canada”.

If Gofarman and Dean22’s numbers are correct, and if Health Canada can secure enough high skill workers at reasonable pay rates, then it seems that this is in fact a significant opportunity for eCanada.

This experience may also be valuable for helping the current administration understand the full value of the use of the Executive Order to accomplish its goals quickly. But more importantly, this demonstrates the importance of attaching to these Executive Orders, the research and details that Congress will need to make a careful and informed decision.