I got a message from Ros Escott, who is on the advisory panel on the marketing in Australia of infant formula chiding me for getting it wrong on Australia. Perhaps the writing was not clear, but I was not criticizing Australia and suggesting it had a spineless government and the last thing I was trying to say is that the government's attitude or Peter Hartmann's statement were influenced by good relations with Nestle. I was showing what could be done by a government that took breastfeeding seriously, as, I was implying Australia's has done. It was the rest of our governments' which are spineless. Ontario even had the vice-president of Carnation (Nestle) on a commission looking at maternal and infant health. Not surprisingly, the word "breastfeeding" was mentioned twice, though they went on and on about pregnant women's nutrition (important too). Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC