If you are 80 years old, unwell, and live in the province of Manitoba, seeing your doctor may just cost you and your family everything they own.
If you are 80 years old, unwell, and live in the province of Manitoba, seeing your doctor may just cost you and your family everything they own.
Let’s see… they want us in government daycare as soon as we are off the teat, we have to let government tell us what we need to keep healthy because we can’t even legally get medical insurance, we have to let the government (in Manitoba) insure our car so they can look out for our best interest in claim (even if the other guy is the same government insurance), and now they know better than the family if you are not able to look after yourself when you get old.
Does anyone see a common thread here? Government! I thought they were supposed to govern not rule. It may not be 1984 anymore but in Manitoba, Big Brother is alive and doing well.
BTW, lest you think I know not of what In speak, I lived in Sunny Maitoba for over seven years and also had to get a lawyer to settle a straight forward auto claim as the Manitoba Insurance Co did not want to deal with itself in a timely manner.
This just tears it. There has to be some recourse. I am not the suing type, but I would be tempted to sue not only the Province but the doctor as well.
Unbelieveable.
From the Provincial Govt Web Site
THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF MANITOBA
HOW DOES THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE BECOME INVOLVED?
The Public Trustee is a trustee of last resort and becomes involved in administering clients’ personal and financial affairs or estates only when required to do so. The Public Trustee becomes involved in these matters in the following ways:
As Committee of a person not mentally capable of making his or her own financial or personal decisions by being appointed as Committee by the Director of Psychiatric Services or by the Court of Queen’s Bench (under The Mental Health Act (http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/m110e.php)).
As Substitute Decision Maker of a vulnerable person living with a mental disability, by being appointed a Substitute Decision Maker of a vulnerable person by the Vulnerable Persons Commissioner (under The Vulnerable Persons Living With a Mental Disability Act).
As Attorney, by being granted a Power of Attorney by a mentally competent person who requires assistance administering his or her estate.
As Estate Administrator by Court of Queen’s Bench appointment.
As trustee of infant trust funds, by the Court of Queen’s Bench or under a variety of provincial statutes.
For more information please contact the Public Trustee General Office at (204) 945-2700 or by email: publictrustee@gov.mb.ca.
The Vulnerable Persons Commissioner…?!! Under the Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disability act?? Sheesh unfreackin real, and just who’s definition of vulnerable are we using this week?
if this was an 80 year old street drunk or whatever and the guvmint did this the socialist horde would be in full hue and cry over Charter rights and the Liberals would fund some left wing nut job lawyers to mount a challenge to the SCC
Scheeeeze! What an ignorant, lopsided system.
I had initially written something else down, but then reconsidered, in the event that these dippers decide to come after my assets. Good grief!
Quebec has the same ‘habit’ of taking over persons lives, selling off their estates and ignoring the wishes of the family. Imagine watching the state auction off your parent’s household, selling family heirlooms to strangers, and there is nothing anyone can do.
The state knows no wrong while big brother MSM knows no right.
After reading Tom Brodbeck’s accounts of this appalling story, I came away with the impression that, were it not for the fact that names, dates, and location were mentioned but rather just the actions of the government, one would be compelled to conclude that what was described happened either in Russia during the Stalin years, or somewhere in Europe during the Nazi reign of terror.
My God! What an unconscienable, shameless abuse of government/bureacratic power. I wonder how many other provinces have such draconian laws on their books? And how many other examples of this travesty are out there, ruining the lives of seniors or others (and their families) who happen to fall on the wrong side of some megalomaniac government-empowered psychiatric control freak?
Surely, in our fair and democratic system, there must be avenues of appeal to protect us all from these types of rogue power-grubbing demogogues?
My mom is terrified.
This is really just another method to steal some more loose change from the unsuspecting public.
And it’s really much worse when you realize that the person assigned to look after millions of dollars of assets is some office clerk, who with the government’s blessing & the union’s protection is pretending to play the part of a big-time Investment Portfolio Manager.
Public Trustee shocker
By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU CHIEF
“LESS THAN CAREFUL” investment practices cost Ontario’s most vulnerable citizens millions of dollars in assets while under the management of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the provincial auditor has found. One legally incompetent senior lost almost $3 million after the Public Trustee left 80% of the assets in Nortel, despite a warning from a financial planner to diversify the portfolio.
Acting auditor Jim McCarter said other clients have lost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“I have to characterize it as being less than careful,” McCarter said. “The Trustee Act says you have to diversify your assets.”
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/12/01/750688.html