A: Follow the money!
The gate keeper in the case of the Liberation treatment for MS patients is the Joint Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the MS Society of Canada. The Joint Committee advised the Federal Health Minister NOT to establish pan-Canadian research trials into the theory of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI).
And the purse strings of this committee are difficult to track but Christopher Alkenbrack has done a good job on the CIHR in his letter to the Federal Health Minister.
http://my-darn-ms.blogspot.com/2010/09/christopher-alkenbrack-lette-to-health.html
The president of CIHR , Dr. Alain Beaudet was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), the province's public-sector health research funding agency in 2008. His close association to the drug companies is hard to ignore.
http://www.merckfrosst.ca/mfcl/en/corporate/newsroom/corporate_news/20080617_bio_2008.html
The MS Society of Canada publishes a yearly report with an audit from Price Waterhouse but details of exactly where the money goes requires further investigation. The % of revenue spent on admin., fundraising & mgmt. is 48%, second highest of the charities reviewed here
http://www.moneysense.ca/2009/12/21/canadas-40-biggest-charities/
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