On this thread there has been talk of a weak justice system, poor educational results, healthcare in decline. Well all this is nothing new right across Canada, partly because we had Liberal rule in Ottawa for so long with their leftist ideals. We might just as well have put the NDP into Ottawa because between the Liberals and the NDP there is virtually no difference, both occupy the left, and both want government to be all things to all people, from birth to death. In order to accomplish this, a huge bureaucracy is required, and Big Government means a bigger and bigger tax bite to pay for all of this bureaucracy.
The problem is that across Canada we have 10 provinces and the Territories all doing their own little thing instead of one specific standard right across the country. In healthcare, much of the new money has been spent on building a larger administration instead of spending this money on either medical equipment and medical personnel and their support staff. Hospitals are dirtier than they have ever been because whenever these administative types want to appear as if they are really doing something , they lay off the lowest people on the personnel ladder and that just happens to be the very people who used to keep the hospitals clean. That contention came from the Canadian Medical Society, when they were discussing the growing rate of Staph infections contracted while in hospital.
Let's look at the justice system for a second, with Liberal governments comes the appointments of liberal minded justices (bleeding-hearts) to the bench, so that instead of sentencing someone to actually serve time behind bars they send them back home on House Arrest, with virtually no monitoring to ensure they haven't resumed business as usual. Does it make sense to anyone to send a drug dealer to house arrest when he did most of his dealing from the very house they are sending him back home to, supposedly incarcerated? Sex offenders, pedophiles, and others who have committed violent crimes are more and more being given house arrest instead of jail. God forbid we put these misunderstood people somewhere that might further damage their phyche.
What we need in Ontario and across the country is lean and mean government who has programs that step in to help the poor, a strong justice system that puts criminals where they belong (behind bars), a healthcare system that is in the business of treating sick people, with the proper numbers of medical personnel and support personnel, and without umpteen levels of administration whose only function is to produce reports that nobody will ever read, just to justify their paycheques. My own family doctor told me he had an adminstrations administrator write him up for keeping patients in beds too long. He told me that he had never been second guessed like that before, and he said he told her that just as soon as she has MD after her name she can question him on medical decisions. I live in NB and the last government instituted a new Health Act, that dictates that doctors can only serve on the Boards of the Healthcare Corporations in an advisory capacity only. In other words they cannot vote nor do they have any actual clout even when it comes down to making decisions regarding medical questions. Those decisions are left up to the voting members of the Board who are appointed by politicians, and they are from the business community and lawyers. They need not have any expertise as far as medicine goes, so decision that are made are made strictly as business decisions that reflect the bottom line, health concerns are not part of their mandate. I suspect that is happening in other provinces as well, since politicians and bureaucrats like to have things fit into nice neat boxes. They do not like the thought that medically, their decisions may not be in the best interests of the patients.
The problem is that across Canada we have 10 provinces and the Territories all doing their own little thing instead of one specific standard right across the country. In healthcare, much of the new money has been spent on building a larger administration instead of spending this money on either medical equipment and medical personnel and their support staff. Hospitals are dirtier than they have ever been because whenever these administative types want to appear as if they are really doing something , they lay off the lowest people on the personnel ladder and that just happens to be the very people who used to keep the hospitals clean. That contention came from the Canadian Medical Society, when they were discussing the growing rate of Staph infections contracted while in hospital.
Let's look at the justice system for a second, with Liberal governments comes the appointments of liberal minded justices (bleeding-hearts) to the bench, so that instead of sentencing someone to actually serve time behind bars they send them back home on House Arrest, with virtually no monitoring to ensure they haven't resumed business as usual. Does it make sense to anyone to send a drug dealer to house arrest when he did most of his dealing from the very house they are sending him back home to, supposedly incarcerated? Sex offenders, pedophiles, and others who have committed violent crimes are more and more being given house arrest instead of jail. God forbid we put these misunderstood people somewhere that might further damage their phyche.
What we need in Ontario and across the country is lean and mean government who has programs that step in to help the poor, a strong justice system that puts criminals where they belong (behind bars), a healthcare system that is in the business of treating sick people, with the proper numbers of medical personnel and support personnel, and without umpteen levels of administration whose only function is to produce reports that nobody will ever read, just to justify their paycheques. My own family doctor told me he had an adminstrations administrator write him up for keeping patients in beds too long. He told me that he had never been second guessed like that before, and he said he told her that just as soon as she has MD after her name she can question him on medical decisions. I live in NB and the last government instituted a new Health Act, that dictates that doctors can only serve on the Boards of the Healthcare Corporations in an advisory capacity only. In other words they cannot vote nor do they have any actual clout even when it comes down to making decisions regarding medical questions. Those decisions are left up to the voting members of the Board who are appointed by politicians, and they are from the business community and lawyers. They need not have any expertise as far as medicine goes, so decision that are made are made strictly as business decisions that reflect the bottom line, health concerns are not part of their mandate. I suspect that is happening in other provinces as well, since politicians and bureaucrats like to have things fit into nice neat boxes. They do not like the thought that medically, their decisions may not be in the best interests of the patients.
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