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Low Income Canadians Least Likely To Get Care In Canada

Canadians need to start a discussion about what they really want out of their health care. Not a partisan fueled debate to see which side is more ideologically pure. Instead of a real discussion about how satisfied are Canadians with their health care system. This becomes especially important with an ageing baby boomer population and rising health care costs.

Recently the Canadian Medical Association came out with their latest annual report on the status of our healthcare system. The report summarized that we are now failing, not only all five fundamental principles of universal healthcare but the neediest in our society.

Now, I’m not one who looks to the United States as the land of milk and honey when it comes to solving any perceived systemic problems. in our own healthcare system.

Many countries maintain mixed systems that have some universality, but at the same time work hand-in-hand with the private sector as well. Maybe in a mixed system, we would see less emphasis on just treating disease and more emphasis placed on trying to manage patients’ pain. If Canadians cannot look at themselves in the mirror and honestly critique and improve their own public policy how can we then scale the heights of greatness in the 21st-century?

Own Kids Come Out Against Father In Campaign

The more I think of this story I just think it’s sad. When your own kids won’t support you, and actively work against your campaign, that should be a strong indication to anyone that they have misplaced priorities.

What makes this an even weirder story is the candidate running for election ran ads highlighting himself as a family man.

Source Reuters
Oklahoma (Reuters Life!) – Jan Schill has a message for voters in Oklahoma choosing a district judge in elections on Tuesday — do not vote for my dad.
She and her husband have taken out newspaper ads urging voters not to vote for John Mantooth, who they believe had a lousy record as a judge and does not deserve the job.

One Student Stands Up Against The Insanity Of The McGuinty Protectionista’s

In a free society not overrun by Protectionista’s, it should only take one voice to stand up against the nonsense of the Ontario government nanny state. The latest driving regulation has upset many youths in the province because it is a clear form of ageism that violates their constitutional right. University student Kevin Wiener has decided to take the new regulation to court.

It’s too bad the Ontario Liberals are more concerned about penalizing our youth instead of solving the bread and butter issues that concern Ontarians everyday. Time will tell if one voice in the wilderness standing up for his rights can still make a difference in an Ontario plagued by Protectionista’s.
While it’s true that all young drivers are inexperienced, not all inexperienced drivers are young,” he said.

Wiener says this is a form of age discrimination and it’s unconstitutional. If people are old enough to fly jets in the military, serve jury duty and vote, they are old enough to make sensible decisions about drinking and driving, he says. He plans to file his challenge to the new law on Wednesday.

“Adults are adults,” he said. “And [Premier] Dalton McGuinty is trying to treat people who are 21 years old like they’re children, and they’re not.”

Conservatives Need To Stand Up And Repudiate Liberalism

William Kristol lends ideological weight to one of Sarah Palin’s tweets heard around the world. It is true a as conservatives of all stripes and diverse inclinations we have to stand up and beat back the advancing brigades of big government

from the weekly standard William Kristol

The Declaration of Independence—and the successful struggle for freedom that followed—depended, then, on a grand refudiation of the existing arrangements under which America labored. The Constitution similarly depended on a refudiation of the Articles of Confederation. It required both an argument as to why they were failing and action to replace them. Each of our big, realigning elections—in 1860, 1896, 1932, 1980—reflected a refudiation of the political status quo. Politics is both argument and action. Realignment depends on refudiation.

We are conservatives. We ordinarily shun novelties of all kinds, including new words. But desperate times call for desperate measures. The Obama project is one of noxious ideology and wild political overreach. The challenge before conservatives is to beat back both. So say it loud and say it proud: Refudiate liberalism now!

Liberals are Devilish Masters of Identity Politics

The Liberal party that claims to be a force for good and the glue that unites this nation, this week showed their true colours again as Master practitioner in the Arts of Identity Politics. This week a Liberal candidate in Calgary on the popular social media site Twitter, claimed that the Calgary cops were racists. Normally, this would be water off a ducks back, and merely chocked up as a rogue candidate going way off the deep end in a riding that probably could only be won if Hell probably froze over first. Sadly the Liberals have an illustrious history of playing Identity Politics by pitting one region or group against each other in the broad Canadian debate.

In 2001 then Minister Hedy Fry tried to marginalize the Canadian alliance as a political force by alluding to that certain areas of British Columbia had crosses burning on their yards. A not so veiled reference to the Ku Klux Klan and their illegal and immoral activities of that organization in the United States.

If an individual cast their gaze back even further to the time of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, he himself had a mixed record when it came to the mastering of the Faustian Fine Art of Identity Politics. Famously in his first meeting with Adolf Hitler. he thought that Hitler was a fine fellow and would be a great leader for Germany. “My sizing up of the man as I sat and talked with him was that he is really one who truly loves his fellow-men, and his country, and would make any sacrifice for their good. ” I’m not comparing King’s initial support for Hitler’s efforts in 1937 as it applies to the Liberals broad-brush approach to Identity Politics.

The fact that King probably did not see the forest from the trees and assumed that Hitler was some type of fellow traveler on the wave of progressivism sweeping the world.

Smacks of a mere massive misreading or naïveté.

However, something that cannot be excused is the blatant pass that the Liberals have been given on the issue of Identity Politics up to now.

From the established historians to the halls of academia and the mainstream media have not traditionally held the Liberals feet to the fire on their lack of consistency when it comes to the issue of Identity Politics. They are a party that is for everything and everybody when it suits them but when they see a political advantage can be gained they will instantly marginalize and demean the broad pageantry of the Canadian mosaic as a political tool to gain power.

The Liberal party has been for one thing and one thing only the fastest and easiest route back into the government’s good graces.

People should be judged for what they do not who they are. the Liberals have clearly forgotten that and are comfortable treating people as just an appendage of a broader political base. This is the fundamental flaw in the modern Liberal Party of Canada and Liberal ideology.