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I don't know who Marianne LeNabat is, but she's either very confused or trying very hard to create a story out of thin air. The country is helmed by a prime mi
by cperciva 13y ago
I don't know who Marianne LeNabat is, but she's either very confused or trying very hard to create a story out of thin air.
The country is helmed by a prime minister, Stephen Harper, known for his brazenly right-wing views and executive unilateralism.
Brazenly right-wing? Ok, he's part of the Conservative party; but he's one of its most moderate members. Executive unilateralism? That's mostly about keeping the right-wing nuts in his own party in line -- Harper refuses to allow members of his own party to put forward any legislation which would place any restrictions on abortion or gay marriage, for example.
the undermining of the country’s universal health care system
Federal funding has increased at a rate of 6% per year for the past decade. Starting next year, it will increase at at a rate equal to nominal GDP growth. When did "increasing funding every year" turn into "undermining"?
In reality, Canada Post has netted a profit for sixteen of the last seventeen years
Only if you subscribe to the notion that future pension obligations will be paid for by the magic public pension fairy.
Services are “delisted,” i.e. taken out of universal medicare coverage, but private supplemental insurance becomes available to cover them.
I have no clue where this is coming from. Seriously, I can't think of even one service which has been delisted in the past 30 years. (And in any case, Canada's constitution says that health care is a matter of provincial jurisdiction, so if such a delisting had happened it wouldn't be the federal government's fault.)
I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
- flycaliguy 13y agoI wouldn't call Harper a moderate conservative, not even close. We are talking Canadian Alliance side of the split. As for his stance of abortion and gay marriage, that's just not a good measurement in Canada, a place where it would appear as if John Baird is being groomed to be our first gay prime minister.
- cperciva 13y agoHarper was CA, but I don't think that's indicative of his politics so much as his location. There wasn't a meaningful (federal) PC party in Alberta for him to join. Heck, he was a member of the Liberal party until he was 26!
- PeterWhittaker 13y agoAgreed. Harper is that most frightening conservative (for liberals), an arch-conservative who recognizes how far his values are from the centre AND can create and execute a strategy for implementing his vision bit-by-bit, piece-by-piece, so that most folks don't appreciate how radical is the gradual change. Thems of us with memories and a willingness to look forward and back see a very scary voyage to the right.