Picketing the Terry Fox Run is one thing, breaking out a cancer victim to put forward a point in union negotiations is another. In St. John's the media guild broke out a cancer survivor who informed the viewing public that she had cancer and will probably see it again, and when she does her friends will have to hold a fund raiser for her to pay the bills (I bet she is a strong supporter of the Canada Health Act). Why? Because she is a contract employee of the CBC and they will not hire her full time. Even worse, Canadians from coast to coast get the "benefit" of her "work and creativity" yet when she gets sick she will have to rely on her friends instead of the Crown Corp insurer. I feel for her that she is a cancer victim. And it is too bad that she did not buy her own disability insurance before she got sick, but from what I can gather, her friends acted like friends. However, the argument that we Canadians are the beneficiary of her work and creativity holds no water. One can only assume that her work is valueless or she would not need the state to pay for it. We receive no benefit otherwise we would be purchasing it. There is a famous trusts case Re: Pinion in which an eccentric old man who collected "art" and painted himself left his house, his collection and his own paintings as a gallery for the people of his home town. He allocated a portion of his estate as a charitable trust for the maintainence of the said gallery. It turns out that one requirement for a charitable trust is the existence of a public benefit. The collection of "art" was worthless. The trust was struck down for lack of a public benefit. The old man thought that he was quite the painter. He thought that he was creative. He was not. His collection was without worth. The lesson, just because you create something, it does not make it worth anything, nor does it make you creative in the sense our CBC non-employee meant, or, more specifically to the case at hand, a benefit to Canadians.