Prediction Time

[Reverend Blair]

If harper is in charge, I'm moving to Quebec. I've scrapped all my life to make Canada Canadian, to keep insane religiousity out of politics, and for for the basic idea that people are worth more than corporate profits.

If Stevie wins and stays in power for more than few months, that's all for naught.

 

[cub1c]

haha. You're welcome anytime. I'm sure NPD could have seats in a sovereign Québec.

But I share you're sadness though. I don't understand why politics and religion is still an issue in Canada. I think it surpass any Québecers.

 

[Reverend Blair]

haha. You're welcome anytime. I'm sure NPD could have seats in a sovereign Québec.

I'm not sure of that at all. I know that the PQ platform with the separatism taken out is an NDP platform, though. I like to be able to vote for instead of against...I'm odd that way.

You'll have to teach me French. Madame Tibeau's chapeau was in a box in the cupboard last I checked. If you attempted to put an accent on that phrase, you got a passing mark where I went to school. We've come a long way since then, but I still don't speak French...I'm lazy and there is no need.

Are you guys prepared for a herd of left-wing anglos? Have you even considered that?

 

[Vanni Fucci]

But I share you're sadness though. I don't understand why politics and religion is still an issue in Canada. I think it surpass any Québecers.

I thought that was part of the separtists' list of complaints, that the separtists wanted to re-establish the supremacy of Catholicism in Quebec...

 

[Reverend Blair]

I predict the Conservtives will drop a couple points over this.

Mike Harris and Preston Manning just tabled a policy paper for the bone-headed neo-cons at the Fraser Institute. They tried to claim it was a research paper on Politics On NewsWorld, but the truth is that the Fraser Institute does no research...they put out policy papers.

Anyway, as part of the Fraser Institute's ongoing War on Canada, this pair of aging miscreants have come up with a paper suggesting that the feds get out of health care, the Canada Health Act be trashed, and the provinces be allowed allowed to experiment with various kinds and levels of privatization...including private insurance.

They have the full backing of Ralph Klein, of course.

So here we go. The Harperites' three pillars of robbing the poor to give to the rich have come out in public. They want make profits more important than not dying.

Harper refused to answer questions on it as he watched yet another vampiric secret agenda be dragged out into the light of day to sizzle in the sunlight.

 

[MMMike]

You're right Rev, better the status quo than an actual discussion about how to make the system better. The system is unsustainable - it is eating up an ever increasing chunk of both provincial and federal budgets. You're damn right there should be experimentation by the provinces. There all ready is - look at Quebec!

 

[Reverend Blair]

If the system was properly funded, we wouldn't have the problems that we currently have. The Conservatives and the right side of the Liberal Party have worked very hard to break our health care system.

Here's a simple question for you MMMike. If health care cannot be afforded by Canadians as a non-profit monopoly then how the hell is adding a series of middle-men demading ever-increasing profits going to make it cheaper?

Here's the answer. It can't be. Health care in the US is a perfect example of that. They spend several times what we do and they have people being bankrupted by medical bills constantly. They have a lower life expectancy and a higher infant mortality rate. They have women who can't afford basic pre-natal care. They have people who have no coverage whatsoever.

Now you can try to yammer about how we won't be forced to an Americanized system all you want, but the truth is that we have NAFTA. The second we let one of those big US companies deliver US-style care in one province (no doubt Alberta), then they can sue under Chapter 11 of NAFTA and the flood gates are fully opened.

You want to fix health care? Institute the Romanow Report...fully and completely. You want to die painfully and dead broke? Let the Conservatives push this piece of sh*t through.