Dismantle public health? How is spending the most per capita on health care dismantling the public system? When Ralph left office we had 188 doctors/100k (the national average was 190). We had 797 nurses/100k (the national average was 776). Those numbers are phenomenal when you consider the massive growth at that time.
Lots of doctors, lots of nurses and highest per capita healthcare spending in the country equals dismantling health care? Is that really the nonsense you're trying to peddle?
Lefties are worse for the environment. All one has to do is look at Saskatistan under the Dippers for 25 years.
Klein? You are talking about a government that ordered a Calgary hospital blown up; laid off thousands of nurses, civil servants, and teachers; attempted to privatize numerous aspects of health care and education; and cut back enrollment in medicine at major universities in Alberta. His actions in the health care area left the province scrambling for doctors and nurses and the educational system was held together only because teachers worked longer hours and refused to cooperate in his attempts to privatize education. The fact that numbers in health care are now similar to those in other areas of Canada do not say much considering the wealth generated in the province during the last couple of decades.
Here is a excerpt from a Wikipedia article describing Klein's actions. You may read the entire article here if you wish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Klein
In October 1998 Klein had the old Calgary General Hospital demolished with explosives.
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In July 2005 Klein delivered a speech on the his "third way" in health care which would lie between the American system and the Canadian system. He proposed a series of provincial health care reforms that would potentially violate the
Canada Health Act. Klein's reforms for Alberta would have permitted for-profit care and made it possible to jump queues, to "allow patients to pay cash for some surgery and let doctors practice in both the public and private health systems." Public outcry forced the government to listen to Albertans and the third way was not legislated.
Klein responded by exclaiming, "I don't need this crap" and throwing the
Liberal health care policy book at a
seventeen-year-old page who had delivered the book during question period in the Alberta legislature. The same booklet later sold on eBay for a reported $1,400, signed by Alberta's Liberal Leader Kevin Taft, with the caption, "Policy on the fly." Earlier in the question period he also had to apologize for calling Liberal leader
Kevin Taft a liar on the floor of the legislature, which is considered
unparliamentary language. His apology consisted of saying, "Sorry, Mr. Speaker. I won't use the word 'fib.' I'll say that he doesn't tell the whole truth all the time - most of the time." Reacting to comments made in March 2006 by Ontario Premier
Dalton McGuinty opposing any
two-tiered health care system in Ontario that Klein has proposed in Alberta which would allow quicker access to surgery for those who pay, Klein stated "I'm no doctor, but I think that Mr. McGuinty's got a case of premature speculation"
BTW you will really have to explain how "lefties" like the Green Party are worse for the environment.
