The problem with Health care is very simple.
It has to do with fiscal imbalance. That's been proven by numerous reports. Séguin, now finance minister in Quebec for the Liberals, explained very clearly few years ago that the money is in Ottawa and the needs are in the Provinces. The Romanow commission says basically the same thing. The federal government must spend money in the Health care system by returning back part of the surplus to the provinces.
It has nothing to do with Jack Layton's being a asshole or the failure of socialism.
The provinces have the expertise to properly manage hundreds of hospitals and medical centres, and Ottawa have never come to manage more than three hospitals?
Health is the business of the provinces. If the West wants to privatize their system, that's their business, but we won't let you apply your american-like ideology to the rest of Canada and destroy one of the best and the most generous Health system in the world.
If you want to let poor children die in the streets while eating caviar and drinking champagne. If that's really what you want, well I don't and I won't let it be, because I've got the power to vote against it.
It has to do with fiscal imbalance. That's been proven by numerous reports. Séguin, now finance minister in Quebec for the Liberals, explained very clearly few years ago that the money is in Ottawa and the needs are in the Provinces. The Romanow commission says basically the same thing. The federal government must spend money in the Health care system by returning back part of the surplus to the provinces.
It has nothing to do with Jack Layton's being a asshole or the failure of socialism.
The provinces have the expertise to properly manage hundreds of hospitals and medical centres, and Ottawa have never come to manage more than three hospitals?
Health is the business of the provinces. If the West wants to privatize their system, that's their business, but we won't let you apply your american-like ideology to the rest of Canada and destroy one of the best and the most generous Health system in the world.
If you want to let poor children die in the streets while eating caviar and drinking champagne. If that's really what you want, well I don't and I won't let it be, because I've got the power to vote against it.