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That's all fine and good but read the act as to what constitutes a violation of these terms. Private clinics and hospitals do not unless they operate outside the Futures of Medicare provision of the act.

Privatizing health care by definition of the act you are quoting applies only to privatizing medicare. It makes no mention at all of allowing private enterprise into the existing framework. You need to read more than a few sentences of something before drawing a conclusion. The public administration part has nothing to do with how the health care is provided, it is about how it is paid and how that payment is administered. Please explain to me how under a medicare system of payment a private clinic, or hospital threatens universal health care. It doesn't. As long as access remains equal to all under the current medicare program I am not sure what anyone's objection is to a private hospital other than banging the drum of union politics. I challenge you to back up your claim that the minister of health said they want to privatize health care. You are making a lofty, and unfounded, conclusion with no basis in fact. Allowing private clinics and hospitals IS NOT privatizing health care. This is boogeyman union politics. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/03/17/privatization-of-health-care-claims-are-categorically-false-ministers-spokesperson-says.html Their combined support is less than 50%. Not sure what numbers you are going off of. At any rate, I don't see the issue either. Whether they formalize and agreement or not, the NDP has been propping up the Liberals for the better part of 3 years now and nothing was going to change.

Read it and I see no basis for with holding funding for private hospitals or clinics under this act if health care is paid for under a government administrated medicare system.

Polling indicated that the PCs are favored to win the seat. We shall see I guess. Either way I'm fine with it. I am also OK with change on the provincial level, just wish Wab Kinew wasn't the leader. I don't like him and I think in an election campaign he will cost the NDP votes.

If nothing changes that is a loss for the NDP as well. Things changing for the Liberals is a worse loss. Unless the NDP win the seat this will be a bad day for them. It is not the federal governments jurisdiction and it would be a politically boneheaded thing to do.

If the Liberals win the seat both they and the CONs come out ahead. Yes, the CONs lose the seat and short term it is bad but a strong Liberal party only favors them in the long run. That being said I suspect that Obby will win comfortably. The NDP has the most to lose today if they don't win the seat. I agree that a strong third party would be beneficial to Manitoba.

Measuring hard money he is 17. Measuring with bonus he is 11....and his bonuses are of the easily attainable variety. Considering he is an IMP I think he is fairly compensated and his placement on the list is about right. Shaddup you whippersnapper. Yep, I love them too, and the McDoubles as well. Like I said if it is a burger chances are I'll like it, unless it's some kind of gross frozen patty or something.

I like them all for different reasons. All the mom and pop burgers too. Just a burger ***** I guess.

He is going to be RT

Rider pick up Jamal Campbell. He had a pretty horrid season last year with the Argos. I am not sure why the RIders are so hell bent on not improving their OL. A big dollar spend for a pretty mediocre player. He eked out 20 starts in his 5 year career so far and had some pretty terrible outings during that time.

I agree with you. A private/Public mix of healthcare would have to be set up properly to eliminate as many avenues for corruption as possible for sure. I just don't think that it should be automatically viewed as evil if private clinics etc. pop up. So long as a strong and efficient public funded and operated system coincides with it, why does anyone care if private clinics or hospitals for that matter exist? I hear a lot of grousing about two tiered health care but if someone wants to pay out of pocket to get better health care and it is available why does this threaten public health care? With the caveat, that the public health care system remains robustly funded and accessible to all who cannot afford it I see no threat to our current system at all. I see problems for unions in this, I see opportunity for fear mongering, but that is all.

On your first point, if your argument is that politicians are corrupt therefore we should not allow private health care to co-exist with public, then I have to ask what you think prevents politicians from the same level of corruption in public health care? On your 2nd point, while I agree that Ms. Bergen, and any other political leader, needs to be always on guard to their public perception the tweet and the premise of it is bizarre really. Just gross that some clown has to make a tweet like that. Ms. Bergen spoke passionately and earnestly about her party's and all of Canada's unwavering support of Ukraine and how Canada should be doing more. As for a LOT of members supporting Russia from the convoy...did someone poll them or something? There are a few on the left of the political spectrum that support Russia as well. I will cede that it was very stupid for any of the polticians to give even tacit support to the convoy though.

Ok, so when the wingnuts from your side of the argument say something outrageous then deny and ask for sources and accuse people of playing politics with it. Got it. I will write down your sage advice and give it the consideration it deserves.

Me too. I will eat one Whopper for every TD he scores if he makes it. Aah...who am I kidding....I will eat a Whopper anyway even if he doesn't score...in fact it's 8:35 a,m. anyone know if Burger King serves Whoppers right now?

I thought that the environmentalists were saying that most of the methane was from cows. You mean I substituted refried beans for beef for nothing? It sure is. Dirty energy is dirty energy. Avoiding one environmental catastrophe by creating another just seems really, really dumb to me. Especially when it can be avoided if people didn't play politics with it and really made an effort to actually, you know...clean up the world instead of peacocking on environmental policy.

LMAO. That is boogey man politics of the highest quality right there. The CPC is not now, and never will be coming after medicare. No political party in Canada ever will. It is political suicide. I don't understand why people equate private clinics, or extension and expansions of current health care by private enterprise as health care being privatized. There can certainly be a healthy balance of public and private medical services paid for by a medicare system. Healthcare becomes privatized when we allow it to go to the highest bidder and set it's own rates for reimbursement of services while eliminating public owned medical services, if set up properly a public/private owned health care service delivery does not do anything but enhance.

It would be tough for sure. Serious battery tech is needed for our winters. Thinking about ordering my gas and groceries from China, guess I'll have to reconsider.

I agree. Also, the mining and smelting required for battery production will create massive environmental damage. Until the world can produce clean electricity and can find ways to eliminate the massive byproduct of pollution from mining, the EV is just replacing one set of problems for another. It's no magic bullet for the environment. Governments around the world need to stop putting the cart before the horse and invest climate change dollars in clean energy production before making spending dollars trying to force everyone to transition. Upgrades to electrical grids, the phasing out of dirty electricity need to happen ASAP and that s where the dollars need to go. I mean you can disagree if you like, but what part of producing dirty energy to power clean energy makes any sense whatsoever.

Yes, we would go deeper in debt but it wouldn't be money pissed into the wind with no avenue for ROI. There is a big difference between wasted money and investing.

Ok fair enough. However, it goes both ways, a few posts back I was a Trump supporting, lying, con man. Sticks and stones by both sides and that's how honest debate on ideology gets derailed. I apologize to all for my part in it. BTW< I certainly don't consider lefty as being an insult or derogatory term, just an ideology, I meant no offence. It differs from my ideology but I respect it. Our political system needs all sides of the spectrum to be successful.

I would suspect they would. That is all I am hoping for. We do not know if he is capable anymore.

Great...then keep your comments to yourself and conduct yourself with some class. I may be an "old dude" but you are seriously immature. I will agree that the right is certainly not having it's best days lately. I am hoping for better. Is that so wrong. I want the alt right to go away as badly as you do. I thought the CERB was a fiasco in it's implementation which led to billions in fraudulent claims, that are unlikely to be collected.

My argument is that the deficit is far too high and a good portion of it is due to wasteful spending and social program mismanagement. I do not care for that much. I will not argue that Alberta's government is very guilty in regard to wasted oil revenues as well. I believe conservatives stand for fiscal responsibility, small government, and efficient program delivery. Nope...don't like the Alberta conservatives one bit. They personify everything that is wrong with the right currently. Personally, I wish this faction of the CPC would go back to Reform and slowly die away like the political dinosaurs they are. There seems to be a misconception here that I am flag waving for the CPC, I am not. I am currently a displaced voter who is hoping that a small C conservative party will emerge and at the same time feels that our current government is trash. Why does criticism of the Liberals equate to support of the CPC. I have stated numerous times my vote in the federal election was a protest vote because they all have warts. I will always be right leaning in my ideology, but that doesn't mean I support the fiasco that is the conservative party right now. I am just hopeful they get their **** together so that this corrupt and scandal laden Liberal party government will be deposed of. They too are badly in need of a refresh.

You are entitled to your opinion, as I am entitled to mine. I like a Conservative run economy. There is much I dislike about the Cons as well, but this forum is so damn polarized it's near impossible for anyone to say anything positive about any party without being labelled a nazi supporter or a pinko. Certainly I am just as guilty of this as anyone else here, but I would bet I am the only one willing to admit it.

Yes...what part of my first comment did you not understand? Where in that comment am I tying deficit to price of oil? I was responding to someone who stated that the Liberals squandered our oil money, I agreed, and expounded. You are the one trying to move the goal posts.