http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/25/cv-election-morgentaler-harper.html
Pro-choice groups ask people not to vote conservative because of their record on abortion. Last week, a Tory MP announced they were going to defund Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services. Harper refused to answer questions on it but has already refused to fund abortions in foreign aid to Maternity Health initiatives and may now be cutting funding to abortion services via Planned Parenthood.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/25/cv-election-cap-trade-ad.html
Ignatieff lumps Layton (NDP) with the conservatives, saying they both have poor environmental stances.
I'm working election day, it's I think 16 an hour or something like that. Your parents could have volunteered to be a rep for one of the parties at the polls but everyone working there is getting paid.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?- http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/04/25/cv-election-f35s-costs.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13199227
DND is now saying that cost forecasts for the F-35 will go up but is insisting that the program will remain on budget.
However, the new report suggests that costs are even higher than what PBO has estimated originally.
edited 26th Apr '11 9:49:37 AM by breadloaf
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/25/cv-election-harper-dossier.html
A 500-page binder of quotes, compiled ironically by the Conservatives, has been leaked by the Liberals to the public. These are all "potentially damaging" quotes by Harper that range from today to as far back as 1980s. Probably of the worst of them, are his suggestions that private healthcare should be allowed.
there are private clinics but only in large cities and I don't think they preform any surgeries or the like.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?I think private clinics are now doing "cosmetic surgeries", IIRC.
And I think it was Erock who asked, I live in Halifax where it's one city with four universities, three colleges and not enough population to fill up even one of them, ooh boy we are very much a uni. town.
Advanced polls were very popular.
Our healthcare is a single-payer universal system. So basically many medical services are privately run (such as family doctors and health clinics) but they only have one customer... the "Canadian people". The rate they get paid for the services they perform is set by the provinces, funded by provincial tax dollars (which are supplemented by Federal grants). So the doctors and so on themselves can be private, but they only get paid a set rate. In essence, the government controls the healthcare revenue and profit rate.
Coverage differs from province to province. For instance, OHIP, the one in Ontario doesn't cover pharmacare, dental, optometry, massages or anything cosmetic. I think sex-change is covered by OHIP again, it keeps flip flopping on that one.
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Advance poll numbers up 34% from last year. Over two million Canadians have used them!
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/26/cv-election-f-35-costs-316.html
Harper dismisses the Department of National Defence that the cost of the jets will rise.
edited 26th Apr '11 4:30:00 PM by breadloaf
Coverage differs from province to province. For instance, OHIP, the one in Ontario doesn't cover pharmacare, dental, optometry, massages or anything cosmetic. I think sex-change is covered by OHIP again, it keeps flip flopping on that one.
Oh okay. Cause I live in BC and we have to pay here, so I was a bit curious if it was different everywhere else or something.
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅUpon reading this thread, I had come to wonder how Canadians could have elected such a government and allowed it to stay in power for so long, but then I remembered the governments we've had since 2003 the early 90s WWII our independence in 1917 Ummm.... Let me fix that...
I had come to wonder how Canadians could have elected such a government and allowed it to stay in power for so long, but then I remembered the governments we've had.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.Really, I think any country with the usual representative democracy system tends to get a government that's corrupt and full of crooks. It seems any country with a democracy is going to have people bitching that all the candidates are idiots and liars.
So why did we elect this party? Well, I think if we elected any of the main parties, it'd be much the same. Charges of corruption, or wasting taxpayer money... Really, I think those problems seem inherit in any government system, no matter whose in power.
Bitter? Probably.
Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.Correct me if I'm wrong, but the vast majority of modern democracies, out of necessity, are Representative Democracies. Perhaps called other things (I suspect every country has their own name for it.) but the idea is you elect somebody, or a group, to represent your interests. In a pure democracy, you'd be called upon to vote on everything. So instead, you just vote for a 'representative,' who does all the decision making, leaving you to keep working or living.
Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.

Okay fine *some* are volunteers. Some of my friends' parents volunteered in any case.