Ontario's Health Care system has a big pot of money. For three years Doug Ford and his government have been under spending this money, Paying nurses less, giving hospitals less, deliberately creating a crisis of sick people, and kids FFS. 1/-
Now he proposes to solve that crisis by giving his friends, rich people in Ontario, Like the Weston Family, money to provide clinics to deal with all these sick people.
There is only one pot of money, and now he is going to give some of it to his friends. 2/-
Those clinics will take the cream, the pot will stay the same size, so there will be less for the Public system, and the nurses and doctors who work in it.
What do you think is going to happen?
The public system will get worse. 3/-
But when your son's hockey team is in a crash causing horrific death and injuries, they will be rushed to the public hospitals not the private clinics.
You better hope there is someone there to help them.
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If you relied upon Facebook and Twitter for information, you would probably think that Albertans are all starving because they are keeping the rest of Canada in the lap of luxury. Albertans are bombarding social media with posts about how hard done by they are.
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We have another Province in our Federation that is also an oil producing Province, Newfoundland and Labrador. When Mr Harper and Mr Kenney designed the current Equalisation programme in 2011, they carefully excluded NFLD because of their offshore oil.
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The average family income in Nfld is about 35% lower than Alberta, housing is cheaper, but everything else is more expensive because of geography. If their electricity utility is to stay solvent they need to double the price to the consumer.
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