“I knew nothing about it until I saw it on Facebook”

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CBC: Local leaders are refuting claims made by Saskatchewan Health Authority that they were consulted on hospital closures;

“They may think that an off-the-cuff remark about doing this is consultation, where I don’t,” he said. “That seems to be a big problem with this government. They say they consult but they really don’t consult. They talk about something and then that’s it and then they go down their path they want to go.”

The red stars mark the locations of the rural ER’s involved in the closures.

That’s free money laying on the table for the NDP’s Ryan Meili, should he simply choose to pick it up.

35 Replies to ““I knew nothing about it until I saw it on Facebook””

  1. It’s not yet another covid-19 posting? The world must have ended already.

    Anyway, single payer healthcare is Cloward-Piven. It is a system that is designed to collapse under it’s own weight. A designed point of failure. You elect even a slightly rational person instead of a socialist, they see the collapse coming, and they start shutting it down. Useful idiots see the shutdown, they believe the coming collapse is a good thing, they start to fight against their own self interest, which they don’t realize they are doing.

    Seen the movie before, Cuba, USSR, Kampuchea, Venezuela, … . Some places it goes faster, some places slower. We are all circling the same drain, some paddle against the current, some don’t.

    Unrelated, but isn’t it interesting how SGEU can spend a billion dollars a year on ads attacking anyone who is not the NDP, but Elections Canada goes after Ezra Levant instead.

    1. In a somewhat related story … the Oakland (CA) Unified SchoolDistrict is closing schools to consolidate costs so they can afford to pay the recently negotiated UNION contract. So now the UNION are out leading Marxist protests against the school closings … as … dehumanizing … and targeting certain “communities” (3-guesses which one?). Sheesh … those schools didn’t even EXIST for the last third of this school year … they were … virtually … gone.

      Standard operating procedure for the Marxists

  2. Great. Free money for NDP should they pick it up. Public service will expand exponentially under them.

    Worked great in Alberta!

    Why not throw the bone to SASK wexit?

    1. My opinion of course, however Wexit will never go over if the price of oil goes up. Only a total crash in the oil industry could fuel WEXIT. Trudeau is experiencing a notable popularity, and his mega handouts are behind that. I believe in the Sask Party, but they have to stay the SASK Party.

      1. P D , I don’t think anyone is going anywhere. I have observed the courage of the current crop of Canadians and they don’t have any.

  3. I think that the mere thought of the Sask Party cutting back on health services will hurt them greatly. Saskatchewan has a totally different mindset than Alberta when it comes to Crown Corps and Medicare. I’ve lived here 70 years. I’ve voted Progressive Conservative since Dick Collver was the leader in 1975. I’ve worked in campaigns, and never once have I seen any notable desire to get rid of medicare, Sask Power, Sask Tel and Sask Energy. I have a bad feeling about the next election. Scott Moe doesn’t enjoy the popularity that Brad Wall had, although Moe is good premier.
    If I have any advice for the Sask party it’s this. Keep the crowns and medicare.
    As for Meili, he’s doctor, so he knows medicare. He’s perfectly bilingual, I’m sure him and Trudeau would hit it off.
    Please, not another NDP government!!

    1. “Moe is a good premier”. ?? Moe needs to go and be replaced with someone who really stands up for Saskatchewan. Ignore the billboards claiming he stands for Saskatchewan. Political lies. He is a federalist and Turdeau has him in his back pocket. He believes in the slave ship called Canada. Anyone who believes and promotes the AGW scam, wasting billions is a fraud. He fell into this Covid pandemic trap killing Saskatchewan’s economy. Just look at what was considered essential services … liquor stores, pot stores and yes abortion. He killed more lives than the Covid virus. If I lived in his constituency, I would not vote for Moe or the ENDP. Lenin had a name for his followers … useful idiots. Canada and Saskatchewan have many.

    2. In order for a WEXIT Party to have any power, it will require a Whipsaw !
      I don’t believe we can ever go from Sask Party to Wexit. We will have to endure a term or two of NDP, which would cause so much desperation, that people will then swing the pendulum hard to WEXIT finally. The stars are aligning, with what looks like PM Blackface getting re-elected with a majority. Trudeau in power for more years and an NDP government here, is what is needed for the great whipsaw, and a Wexit party with power.

      1. ” We will have to endure a term or two of NDP, which would cause so much desperation, that people will then swing the pendulum hard to WEXIT finally. ”

        This is not supported by an historical evidence. Pure fantasy.

  4. SK has over 70 crown corporations. Politicians mess with them at their peril.

    I agree with you Plainz Drifter – Moe is not Brad Wall. The ndp is poised to make a comeback in SK.

    1. SK has lived with and embraced socialism all my life and they will return to the trough.

    2. “Moe is not Brad Wall.”

      Thank God. Wall a ‘hole who pushed the feds to vandalize PotasCorp shares. He did very little to reform Saskatchewan total waste of everyone’s time.

  5. Once we saw the Rosthern Clinic close (in the end of March) due to a doctor getting the Chinese Coronavirus, it seemed like a plan would be put in place to close the smaller hospitals and clinics and plan to centralize those skillsets to meet the onslaught of the Chinese Coronavirus.
    https://globalnews.ca/news/6733830/rosthern-doctor-covid-19/

    I see these recent closures as part of that type of plan. At the end of the day, if things go south in a small hospital in the midst of a pandemic, how do you marshal resources to rescue them?

    1. I guess if things go south without a hospital it will be much better for all involved. Now if only we had a pandemic going that could prove the correctness of the action.

    2. Closing the hospital to avoid having to close the hospital seems like a solution only government could come up with.

      1. I mean, the purpose of the lockdown was to prevent the hospitals from becoming overwhelmed and people not being able to access health care at all, such as happened in Italy and New York.

        So, in their wisdom, they locked down — and also closed access to health care. Fucking genius.

        1. You need to look at their plan. If you are one or two deep in key positions, you need to factor in contingencies.

          The downside to the rural closures is increased travel time. Depending on the nature of the emergency, chances are anything serious was planned to go directly to a larger hospital to save time.

          2. It would be interesting to see why STARS would need to land 19 times in the city of Regina. Regina has a great many ambulances.

          3. Holdfast, I could give you and any government multiple ideas and all would require the elimination of all unnecessary government programs and employees. That would indeed see much more revenue left for medical care and clinics in all those small areas. Nurse practitioners have as much knowledge as most GPs and could be staffing them with adequate funding that would not break the bank. In life one can never cover or adequately plan for all contingencies.

          4. Old white guy, I get the impression that you feel there are some “Marquis of Queensberry” rules for situations like this.
            You know what Mike Tyson said about plans…

          5. Hold something, you wanted a suggestion you got it . I don’t give a rats ass about Mike Tyson.

        2. And that was PLANETARY wide.
          Never in mankind’s history have we stopped our “economies” to prevent a goddamned flu. The lockdown and in particular the NAZI like regs surrounding Nursing homes and the elderly is what drove the high death numbers.
          Goes to show the latent evil in Progressive Liberal Govts World Wide.

          Had we allowed Seniors to be taken OUT of NH’s at the onset, the death toll would have been significantly less and most likely far less than the annual FLU.

          Nursing Homes – Kampf OVENS….show me the differnce.???
          Still State Sponsored Euthanasia.

        3. Red Deer has 2 complete empty floors in their hospital…awaiting the onslaught of the chicom flu. Two complete floors.
          They emptied out critical patients. Sent them home to die without access to medical care only to have nurses and doctors sit on their asses looking at empty beds and OR rooms.

          The tragedy (legacy) that the chicom flu produced is how Canada treated it’s most vulnerable. The elderly in nursing homes and sick citizens who were denied basic health care. The politicians who made these decisions should be thrown from office at the first opportunity.

          In a time of need they failed by any measure. Denying citizens basic health care is a crime that should be punished . Many people died because of a failure of command. The politicians and their health care advisors need to be held to account.

  6. “Moe is not Brad Wall. The ndp is poised to make a comeback in SK.”
    Premier Moe is certainly not Brad Wall, however he is likable, popular with Saskatchewanians and has provided solid, steady leadership during his short term even with the shit show that is taking place. The NDP, on the other hand, is in complete disarray, devoid of any ideas or direction and being led by a whining marxist. Sure the NDP will get the support from the usual sources …. SEIU, SGEU and SUN but these outfits will lean far left regardless of what the Sask Party does. An NDP government would be a nightmarish situation bordering on apocalyptic and the vast majority of Saskatchewan voters realize this.

    That being said, the decision to temporarily close rural ER’s was boneheaded and hamhanded and should be immediately reversed. Ryan Meili may be a fool but why hand him any ammunition when there is nothing to be gained?

  7. One of the beautiful things about the game of baseball is that one can usually come up with an analogy to describe an event in real life. Temporarily closing rural ER’s can best be compared to the following scenario.

    Top of the ninth, 2 away, bases empty, home team comfortably ahead by 10 runs. Next batter hits a routine ground ball which the shortstop promptly bobbles resulting in a late throw to first. Error? Of course. Game-changer? Hardly.

  8. Thanks – glad this was brought up, because it bugged me. When I initially read the article that this site linked to when the story first broke I was rather taken aback by the “we consulted with those at the local level” when SHA attempted to justify their decision. HUH???? Surely those at the local level wouldn’t be all jiggy with hospital/ER closures in their own areas.

    Now I know. It was a lie.

    1. The rule applies in both directions: If you support a party that takes your vote for granted, you get what you deserve.

  11. OCD says that’s not where Melfort is located.

    Please do not use this map to navigate, unless you want to go to Carrot River area.

  12. Didn’t Saskatchewan close down a bunch of rural hospitals in the ’90s and outcomes improved?

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