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I have been screaming from the rooftops for two decades. Politicians and business leaders don't listen and the only person suffering today is the guy who simply wanted a better Canada and Ontario.
Be proud Americans and speak your minds so that you don't follow us down the Eastern Bloc path.
nationalpost.com
The federal government’s offer this week of $196 billion over 10 years to the provinces and territories in additional federal contributions to health-care spending was really only a very modest increase on what was already known to be forthcoming under existing arrangements. It is, as it has been widely described, including by the federal government’s enablers in the NDP, a quantitatively inadequate, profoundly unimaginative and dangerously superficial approach to a mortal threat to our health-care system.
All middle-aged Canadians have witnessed, though it has been severely under-publicized in the generally mediocre and parochial media of this country, the descent of Canada from being comparable per capita in prosperity to the United States to a position where often, it barely cracks the top 20 in global rankings. We have been bypassed by countries with small populations and negligible resources, which within living memory were in a chronically underdeveloped or war-ravaged condition, such as the Netherlands and Belgium
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As might confidently be expected, the erosion of Canada’s competitiveness is reflected in its health-care system. ...The result is that an estimated three-million Canadians are on medical waiting lists and, contrary to an endless cataract of official promises to the contrary, a steadily larger number of Canadians are put on medical wait lists every year.
Be proud Americans and speak your minds so that you don't follow us down the Eastern Bloc path.
Conrad Black: Canada's failing health system is but a symptom of a broken nation
Conrad Black: Canada's failing health system is but a symptom of a broken nation
The erosion of Canada's competitiveness is reflected in its health-care system
nationalpost.com
The federal government’s offer this week of $196 billion over 10 years to the provinces and territories in additional federal contributions to health-care spending was really only a very modest increase on what was already known to be forthcoming under existing arrangements. It is, as it has been widely described, including by the federal government’s enablers in the NDP, a quantitatively inadequate, profoundly unimaginative and dangerously superficial approach to a mortal threat to our health-care system.
All middle-aged Canadians have witnessed, though it has been severely under-publicized in the generally mediocre and parochial media of this country, the descent of Canada from being comparable per capita in prosperity to the United States to a position where often, it barely cracks the top 20 in global rankings. We have been bypassed by countries with small populations and negligible resources, which within living memory were in a chronically underdeveloped or war-ravaged condition, such as the Netherlands and Belgium
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As might confidently be expected, the erosion of Canada’s competitiveness is reflected in its health-care system. ...The result is that an estimated three-million Canadians are on medical waiting lists and, contrary to an endless cataract of official promises to the contrary, a steadily larger number of Canadians are put on medical wait lists every year.
