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cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

"I will not celebrate Canada Day in 2006 or thereafter until our government stops treating us like serfs and starts protecting our individual rights..."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4717

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RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Why do so many other Albertans have no long-term memory? Our schools and our health care were fine until Klein was elected in and started slashing social programs down, with the intent of sabotaging them so we'd have no choice but to find a private sector alternative. Government-owned social programs don't work when they're at the hands of greedy libertarian
politicians.

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Or government programs that don't work when greedy unions have for example postal carriers (unskilled labor) making $25.00 an hour either.
Those fat cat government unions are making those programs uncompetitive and too costly to not at least look at alternatives.

Being from a socialist province (Saskatchewan), I know all about it. Sad

However I do sympathize with the writer. Our Health Care system does need reform. Something has got to change. I think a two tier system may be feasable in some form.

Homer · Guest

It is also nice to see how many Albertans forget that the province was the benficiary of perequation payments until recently (petro bucks changed that)....

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:58 am Post subject:

I went to university in Alberta and returned there to work as a journalist a few years afterwards.

It's the most narrow-minded, myopic climate I've ever been in.

Until now.

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

>perequation

Good Lord. I cannot find a definition for this word on any online dictionary or source.

I don't know what to make of an article like this. I can't endorse it or condemn it entirely-- the writer is partly right and partly exaggerating. Yes, the fact that our country is among three in the world that do not permit private health care-- along with Cuba and North Korea!!-- makes our tax-paid public health care inefficient and slow at times. But I'd rather be sick at home than in Burkina Faso.

Yes, our education system could open up and be really modern, as opposed to 1970s modern-- there is too much fixation on politically correct curricula and touchy-feely methodologies. But c'mon-- environmentalism and multiculturalism are problems?

Yes, Canada is overregulated, overtaxed, and unfriendly to business-- we lack the economies of scale of the Americans, but our bad attitudes also help explain why we're always less wealthy and productive than the US. But sometimes I like a government who wants to check if your new business is going to dump raw sewage somewhere.

There's things I really don't like about Canada, but I don't think it's a land of "gross injustices". I think the writer needs more balance.

Nevertheless, I don't see why this is becoming a Klein-bash. Klein didn't create all this red tape; he just failed to eliminate it. The '90s cutbacks were the result of cuts in federal transfer payments at the time, and most of those cutbacks are now gone. Nor do I see why it's an Alberta-bash. No one here is allowed to complain without being called a whiny redneck? Other than the depression-era, the flow of money has been out of Alberta to Ottawa since day one, from the rigged and unfair railway rates to the NEP.

Ken:>

poker player · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Location: On the river

Well if you're a Canadian but don't like your country, turn in your passport. No one is forcing you to carry it-it's your choice.

Mitch Comestein · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Location: South

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

The original writer was complaining about access to health care in Calgary. Right where Ralph Klein is from. If he was going for it 15 years ago, back when health care was adequately funded, there'd be no article worth writing.

The only reforms that need to be made are to undo the damage Klein made.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

WorldWide · Joined: 28 Apr 2006

Alberta can't wait to be the next texas. Full of greedy/selfish/right-wing conservative morons who think all government is bad unless they are getting a $400 cheque from it.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:38 am Post subject: