Uproar over Health Council’s demise isn’t worth it
…Either you invest in co-operation to ensure there is a semblance of a national health system, or you don’t.
Our governments, federal and provincial, through their actions if not their words, have opted to not do so. Maintaining the Health Council of Canada in its current incarnation and in the absence of that commitment would amount to putting lipstick on a pig.
Faster,please. Hopefully when PMSH is done getting rid of this useless POS,he can start working on “two tiered” health care,which the dishonourable trough sucking pigs of the unions,and so called “friends of our socialist system” fail to realize is HERE NOW. Besides,that term is just propaganda for the LIV’s. Sfter that? Bring on right-to-work legislation,nationally.
Hmmmm crony administration, closed shop unionized staff, no accountability and taxpayer funded.
Should work.
All of the above.
The Globe called for the abolition of one quango saving each Canadian householder less than a dollar a year. That won’t even buy a small coffee at Tim’s any more.
If that’s the best the Globe can do to convince normal people that not everything they print aside from the TV listings is a pack of lies, lipstick on a pig is the most charitable way to put it. Unless they can get a rich bankster to take it over as a hobby (or to give a mistress or an alcoholic son something to do to keep them off the cover of the Sun), or convince Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau or Thomas Mulcair to help keep the lights on, the Globe will be lucky to still be online by 2020, never mind in print.
Related:
Where I live copies of the local Postmedia rag are appearing on doorsteps free of charge, in a desperate attempt to solicit subscriptions. (I hardly ever read it even online—they rarely print anything worth reading even for a cheap laugh that isn’t already in the National Post itself.) At my place all but the coupons go in the garbage. Anybody else had this problem lately?
Yes … Lipstick on a pig ….or COW ….
The list is long … if we can cancel the check for one such group per week we just might make some usefull gains in a few years.
don…..first I gotta decode it! Doncha just love when some eedjit is very well versed in the English language tries to fake that she doesn’t??
Oh. And BTW the “i” or “ok”. I spend money mine on investments good shore off,not muzzie land killers.
Or, biblically speaking, “Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.” (Is a beautiful woman without discretion)!
The council was a good idea and a bulwark for quality healthcare standards back in the day when pols and administrators actually feared legal repercussions for short cutting the system with poor standards – but the state the system is in now (and getting worse) what difference does it make that a few more system parasites are pensioned off early
“i”……not lucky. Very hardworking and investment smarts,both of which are extremely limited in anybody who has come out of the edumacation indoctrination system in the last 30 years. See,I DO NOT rely on others to support me and mine,never have,and God willing,never will. Oh. And having a very healthy respect against anything commie,socialist,fascist,or muzzie.
Was the Health Council the thingie that Jean Chretien set up to provide a large number of pork barrel jobs?
No, it was a very small organization set up 10 years ago to monitor progress on the health care accord between the federal government under Paul Martin and the provinces. Its purpose was to monitor progress on reduction of wait times in hospitals across Canada. It had a budget that never exceeded $6.5 million, which means it had no enforcement mandate at all (it couldn’t, health care is the demesne of the provinces). In short, it was to verify the usefulness of the huge amounts of money the feds were pouring into the health care system through transfer payments.
It was totally dependent upon information supplied by the provinces. Because it had no budget to do independent research it was vulnerable to any games the provinces might play with their statistics. As a result, none of its reports could come to any conclusions about whether progress was being made or not.
So, its 10 year mandate is up, and it’s being discontinued. It was too small to do any good or meaningfully fulfil its mandate.
No, it was not set up for a large number of pork barrel jobs. It was far too small to be useful for that either.