Blame the Premiers, in particular some of which are working hard to achieve this exact result as a lead up to proposing privatization.
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@dmacphee the feds hold the levers of the Canada Health Act and the huge pile of money. Aren't they are equally responsible?
The Canada Health Act is oriented around healthcare delivered by only Doctors, and only in hospitals, and the provinces are endlessly moving services out of hospitals and minimizing the involvement of Doctors.
The foot-dragging on legislating and implementing pharmacare for life-essential drugs like insulin....the feds are just as bad as the premiers.
@johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
The feds are absolutely complicit in allowing this to happen. They have the power to without CHA funding, but are turning a blind eye to this clear organized determination to defund and divide our public system for corporate benefit.
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@johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
The feds are absolutely complicit in allowing this to happen. They have the power to without CHA funding, but are turning a blind eye to this clear organized determination to defund and divide our public system for corporate benefit.
@chad @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
You seem to have forgotten Trudeau's attempt to update the healthcare funds transfer agreement in 2023. Any attempt to gain a better deal for patients - oh, like more transparency or greater access to our records - was swiftly rejected by the provinces.
All those Conservative provincial governments want is more money with less accountability.
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@chad @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
You seem to have forgotten Trudeau's attempt to update the healthcare funds transfer agreement in 2023. Any attempt to gain a better deal for patients - oh, like more transparency or greater access to our records - was swiftly rejected by the provinces.
All those Conservative provincial governments want is more money with less accountability.
@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I want to see a Pierre Trudeau cutoff moment.
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@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I want to see a Pierre Trudeau cutoff moment.
@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I use 6 years as the accountability boundary. If you've been govt for 6y and haven't changed something put in place by a previous govt, you OWN IT now. Majority/Minority, constitutional jurisdiction are cop-outs.
Doug Ford now owns everything from the Wynne/McGuinty era, just as they owned everything from the Harris/Eves era.
Trudeau Jr. didn't get it done in 2023 because they didn't really want it to get done.
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@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I use 6 years as the accountability boundary. If you've been govt for 6y and haven't changed something put in place by a previous govt, you OWN IT now. Majority/Minority, constitutional jurisdiction are cop-outs.
Doug Ford now owns everything from the Wynne/McGuinty era, just as they owned everything from the Harris/Eves era.
Trudeau Jr. didn't get it done in 2023 because they didn't really want it to get done.
@johnefrancis @chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I've often wondered if Doug Ford et al. can be charged for criminal negligence of our healthcare system.
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@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I use 6 years as the accountability boundary. If you've been govt for 6y and haven't changed something put in place by a previous govt, you OWN IT now. Majority/Minority, constitutional jurisdiction are cop-outs.
Doug Ford now owns everything from the Wynne/McGuinty era, just as they owned everything from the Harris/Eves era.
Trudeau Jr. didn't get it done in 2023 because they didn't really want it to get done.
@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG this is for laws, policies, agreements, govt. operations.
I don't credit economic performance to govts, positive or negative. By the time economic impacts are realized, someone who was >40yo in govt. will be mostly dead.
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@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I use 6 years as the accountability boundary. If you've been govt for 6y and haven't changed something put in place by a previous govt, you OWN IT now. Majority/Minority, constitutional jurisdiction are cop-outs.
Doug Ford now owns everything from the Wynne/McGuinty era, just as they owned everything from the Harris/Eves era.
Trudeau Jr. didn't get it done in 2023 because they didn't really want it to get done.
@johnefrancis @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG the problem is that both the federal and provincial gov'ts have no appeal to accountability anymore.
They got elected, and they've got four years to do whatever the hell they want. They don't respond to emails, phone calls, letters.
The UCP and the NWC is a prime example.
Eleanor Olszewski, parachute candidate for Edmonton-Centre has yet to respond to a single constituent email. Randy at least responded some of the time.
They're all complicit.
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@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I want to see a Pierre Trudeau cutoff moment.
@chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I remember BILLIONS of dollars in transfers to Ontario during COVID “held” by Doug Ford and not used for patient care. “Allocated” they said, but they didn’t spent it on patients, and later went back to the feds wanting more money without restrictions.
https://www.ipolitics.ca/2021/01/26/ontario-sitting-on-billions-of-unspent-covid-relief-cash-report/
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@johnefrancis @chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I've often wondered if Doug Ford et al. can be charged for criminal negligence of our healthcare system.
@darrenmorin @johnefrancis @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG I'm more interested in seeing the unelected folks that are meeting with the Trump admin see some accountability.
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@chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I remember BILLIONS of dollars in transfers to Ontario during COVID “held” by Doug Ford and not used for patient care. “Allocated” they said, but they didn’t spent it on patients, and later went back to the feds wanting more money without restrictions.
https://www.ipolitics.ca/2021/01/26/ontario-sitting-on-billions-of-unspent-covid-relief-cash-report/
@fsinn @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG Kenney did the same thing in Alberta.
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@chad @northernlights @dmacphee @EdwinG this is for laws, policies, agreements, govt. operations.
I don't credit economic performance to govts, positive or negative. By the time economic impacts are realized, someone who was >40yo in govt. will be mostly dead.
@johnefrancis @chad @dmacphee @EdwinG
With respect to Justin Trudeau's attempt to amend the healthcare act, you seem to have forgotten that Canada works more as a partnership between the federal government and the provincial governments. That is, provinces joined Confederation at different times and each province negotiated its own agreement to join, with its own division of powers (areas over which the feds and provs have authority and for which they take responsibility).
The CHA establishes the principle of universal healthcare in Canada and funds on the basis of this principle; administering the healthcare is under provincial jurisdiction. Any changes to the way it is administered are decided by provincial governments.
Canada does not have a fantasy situation where the federal government is all-powerful and can force provincial governments to change their administration of healthcare. Don't be fooled by separatist rhetoric that the feds are the villains in declining healthcare administration.
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@johnefrancis @chad @dmacphee @EdwinG
With respect to Justin Trudeau's attempt to amend the healthcare act, you seem to have forgotten that Canada works more as a partnership between the federal government and the provincial governments. That is, provinces joined Confederation at different times and each province negotiated its own agreement to join, with its own division of powers (areas over which the feds and provs have authority and for which they take responsibility).
The CHA establishes the principle of universal healthcare in Canada and funds on the basis of this principle; administering the healthcare is under provincial jurisdiction. Any changes to the way it is administered are decided by provincial governments.
Canada does not have a fantasy situation where the federal government is all-powerful and can force provincial governments to change their administration of healthcare. Don't be fooled by separatist rhetoric that the feds are the villains in declining healthcare administration.
@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG they can - and have - threatened to pull CHA funding for these exact reasons.
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@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG they can - and have - threatened to pull CHA funding for these exact reasons.
@chad @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
Who is 'they' and when did this happen?
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@chad @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
Who is 'they' and when did this happen?
@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG Pierre Trudeau era.
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@chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG I remember BILLIONS of dollars in transfers to Ontario during COVID “held” by Doug Ford and not used for patient care. “Allocated” they said, but they didn’t spent it on patients, and later went back to the feds wanting more money without restrictions.
https://www.ipolitics.ca/2021/01/26/ontario-sitting-on-billions-of-unspent-covid-relief-cash-report/
@fsinn thats a strange system where they can just decide your money is their slush fund
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@northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG Pierre Trudeau era.
@chad @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG
The Canada Health Act was created in 1984, which was right in the middle of the Trudeau Era.
Was Alberta attempting to get more than its fair share when invited to join a national programme, and so, may have been threatened with exclusion?
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@fsinn @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG Kenney did the same thing in Alberta.
@chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG Ugh.
It’s just gross that so many people with absolutely zero interest in helping other people become politicians and get elected. Just consistently the worst kind of people in office literally leading to deaths of constituents. Ugh.
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@fsinn thats a strange system where they can just decide your money is their slush fund
@bweller @chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG And Smith with her newest attempt to “direct” judges. Her words. Uuuggghh.
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@fsinn thats a strange system where they can just decide your money is their slush fund
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@bweller @chad @northernlights @johnefrancis @dmacphee @EdwinG And Smith with her newest attempt to “direct” judges. Her words. Uuuggghh.
