Mulcair attacks Conservatives over health care, marijuana stance

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Mulcair attacks Conservatives over health care, marijuana stance

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is chastising the Conservatives on their proposed cuts to health care while accusing them of politicizing the debate on marijuana.

In a speech to the Canadian Medical Association, Mulcair contends the Tories unsuccessfully tried to recruit Canadian doctors in an ideological crusade against marijuana.

Three medical groups, including the CMA, recently turned down a request by Ottawa to participate in a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of marijuana use to Canadian youth. They said the issue had become a "political football."

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau says the proposed campaign is a thinly veiled attack on his pro-legalization stance, while Health Minister Rona Ambrose scoffed at that charge earlier this week at the annual CMA conference.

Mulcair, the first Opposition leader to be invited to address the meeting, accuses the Conservatives of being more interested in reducing funding to public health care than protecting it.

Mulcair vowed that if elected, the NDP would use any budget surplus to cancel $36 billion in proposed Conservative cuts to health care over the next 10 years.

Mulcair also said an NDP government would reopen nine veterans service centres closed earlier this year,

Mulcair attacks Conservatives over health care, marijuana stance
 

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Half the planets on fire and these clowns instruct the citizens on the great and noble work they will take up on our behalf, if only we are smart enough to push the fat heads further up the ladder into the **** hole at the top.
 

petros

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All MPs need to spend a day at a Medical Weed store. They'll notice the vast majority are 35y.o. and up. It would blow their "accessible to kids" theory out of the water.
 

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All MPs need to spend a day at a Medical Weed store. They'll notice the vast majority are 35y.o. and up. It would blow their "accessible to kids" theory out of the water.

Show me some stats bro.
 

darkbeaver

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If any party were indeed concerned with the welfare of children they would immeadiately strip all the public schools of the cowardly idiot administrations which do nothing but ruin young minds with years of indoctrination into the totally corrupt and evil establishment. Delusional children are the direct product of disgusting filthy media and non stop lies about everything imaginable.

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petros

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Not near as many as would have been if not for our retarded laws. Even for people that choose to go the poison pill route marijuana helps with both pain and nausea.

And cannabinoids have yet to be tested on human cancer patients as a cancer cell killer.