While I’ve got a few great items waiting to be worked up, I also have a busy morning and some very rotten highways facing me, so reader tips it is for now.
Evidence of pre-global warming hurricane activity has been found.
Ontario Liberal candidate, Ben Chin – dragged hiself up by his bootstraps, he did…
A great observation on Canadian health care;
In an interesting parallel with socialist arguments against school vouchers in America, socialist defenders of “free” health care in Canada warn that allowing private clinics will “drain the public system of doctors and nurses.” This is tantamount to an admission that doctors, nurses, and patients are unhappy with the current system, though of course defenders of the status quo don’t recognize that is what they are saying.
Indeed.
David G Mullan writes that President John Harker of Cape Breton University has cancelled a debate between himself and Masud Choudhury concerning the Danish cartoon controversy originally scheduled for 9 March.. Mullan plans to show up anyway.
Add your own in the comments.
I saw Keith Martin interviewed after the Liberal caucus meeting. He pretty much parrotted the party line on health care reforms. THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LINE. He seems to be very supportive of the initiatives of the Alberta government and recognizes that the status quo isn’t working. Why did he jump ship again?
If consequence of infraction was sufficient enough a deterrent, no one would bother locking their doors at night, confident in the security of the consequences to anyone invading their homes. Obviously, this has not been the trend.
It hasn’t been tried. If it were legal to shoot intruders the moment they broke through the door, there would be few intruders.
Anyway, I’d sooner go to jail for shooting an intruder than have the criminal cause me harm. Reasonable force be damned.
I am sooooo sick to death of all these do-gooders that are against ANY innovation in our disfunctional “health care” system. I am now 35 weeks and waiting for double knee replacements . These so-called friends of medicare are no friend to the people who need the services! They are assured of speedy care because they are in the front lines of protest. I want to be able to access care in my province and if I can pay for it why should I not? Why should I have to go out of province or to another country when my support system is here?
Truthsayer, you have hit it right on and that is what my argument is . If I can pay for my knee replacements, why oh why can I not get it done in my home province, Alberta.?
This is good news for Canadians: the AdScam Chretien/Martin jailbird ‘flu.
The wealth care system of the Librano$ is in emergency; the prognosis is not good. Do not say a prayer for them. +
Officials withheld info from Gomery, says new book………should keep the media busy until Parliament resumes
“A new book on the sponsorship inquiry says high-ranking public servants and political staff in the Liberal government of Paul Martin withheld information and tried to hamper efforts by the Gomery inquiry to get to the bottom of the scandal.” +
via bourque
They had this debate in England in the 70’s. The Prime Minister Thatcher brought in two tier medicine promising it would not affect public health care. Guess what. Public health care became second rate.
This is not only not surprising it is entirely predictable. Those of us who fight privatization fight it because we are not stupid. We know exactly what will happen.
ELIZA if you cant wait for your operation then drive across the border and get it done.
If you get your wish and privitization becomes a reality know this, you will get yours done at the expense of someone less fortunate who will wait perhaps years to get your operation. Unless you think these highly qualified surgeons grow on trees.
Another useless tax-funded Statscan study:
Immigrants often don’t remain here
Study seeks to understand why
About one-third of working-age immigrant men left Canada within 20 years of arriving from 1980 to 2000 — 60% within a year, a Statistics Canada study says…
The 49-page study, based on more than 100,000 men’s tax forms, immigration records and census reports, could not tally those who never filed tax forms….
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/03/02/1469428-sun.html
Steve d this
“Those of us who fight privatization fight it because we are not stupid”
is contradicted by your
“Why are we so concerned that the monied can’t get the service they want.”
A conflict of interest
Warren Kinsella, National Post
Published: Thursday, March 02, 2006
Between the swaths of preening vanity and ham-fisted prose contained in Inside Gomery — a new book written about the famous Quebec jurist by his obliging press flak, Francois Perreault — there are a handful of revealing details…
…Much of the book is like that, but that is not its most serious problem. Its most serious problem is that Inside Gomery represents a conflict of interest — for three principal reasons:
– Gomery has permitted Perreault to pocket the proceeds of the French and English editions, even though his PR underling had already received approximately $250,000 in public monies in a contract awarded without competition.
– Gomery and Perreault advanced the book scheme while the Gomery Commission was still underway and receiving legal submissions.
– Gomery encouraged Perreault to write the book despite a confidentiality agreement signed by the latter….
Rich:
Gee, thoughtful response!
Are you gay….haha!
I wasn’t talking about the rich fighting for privatization. No, for them it is another level of luxury at their fingertips. But at whose expense?? No, I was refering to the majority of those who follow the mantra “privatization will set you free”. Most people who want it haven’t thought it through. As if new medical workers will suddenly materialize out of the ether as if by magic. Please, don’t insult my intelligence, we can’t get enough doctors now and the baby boomers are going to increase the need over the next 20 years. So you want to privatize so that we can spread our finite resources even thinner so that you, the monied class, can jump the cue? No sir, if you want to jump the cue go across the border.
I wasn’t talking about the rich fighting for privatization. No, for them it is another level of luxury at their fingertips. But at whose expense?? No, I was refering to the majority of those who follow the mantra “privatization will set you free”. Most people who want it haven’t thought it through. As if new medical workers will suddenly materialize out of the ether as if by magic. Please, don’t insult my intelligence, we can’t get enough doctors now and the baby boomers are going to increase the need over the next 20 years. So you want to privatize so that we can spread our finite resources even thinner so that you, the monied class, can jump the cue? No sir, if you want to jump the cue go across the border.