I was very disappointed to hear on @cbcthecurrent that @mattgallowaycbc and his panel adopted the conservative verbiage to discuss the Quebec levy on the unvaccinated as a violation of the Canada Health Act. Only one panelist pointed out the facts. 1/7
The fact being, this is not legislation to charge the unvaccinated for health care. This is a tax, like the taxes on tobacco and alcohol, designed to change behaviour. It is not refusing to treat unvaccinated patients if they can't pay. They are not being asked to pay... 2/7
for their health care. The conservatives, federally and provincially, are skewing the new law in Quebec and the media are running with a false interpretation. Someone in the conservative brain trust has decided there is an opportunity. 3/7
By saying Quebec's plan to tax the unvaccinated is in violation of the Canada Health Act, they can appear to be championing the Act (even though the conservatives would like to revoke the Canada Health Act). 4/7
At the same time, they are supporting their anti-vax base AND dissing Quebec and the federal Liberals. It's like Christmas for the conservatives. 5/7
I understand why they are misrepresenting the situation for their own advantage, given that truth and reality and the lives lost to covid and hospital overcrowding are not important to them. Winning is everything. A few thousand dead is immaterial so long as they gain power. 6/7
But why is the CBC playing along? You know they want to defund you, right? That's one of their big campaign promises. You don't have to take their side all the time to prove you're unbiased. That makes you look biased. And daft. 7/7
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