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Number of Canadians who give up and leave ERs over wait times has increased fivefold
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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It's crazy that over the last decades, conservatives have fought tooth and nail against any foreign aid or immigration under the false assertion that "we need to take care of our own", meanwhile any time they have any freedom to do so, they decidedly "take care of our own" less and less.
And yet Doug Ford has a majority in Ontario, Tim Houston has a majority in Nova Scotia, Danielle Smith has a majority in Alberta, Scott Moe has a majority in Saskatchewan, and Bill Oliver has a majority in New Brunswick.
Who's voting for these troglodytes? Who's looking at the options of "a better future for real people, or a worse future for real people" and choosing the latter? Surely it's not all just in the name of bad memes and "owning the libs"... right?
They're idiots. The answer is idiots. People that will half ass argue "politics" with you for 110 seconds before cutting you off and saying "look I don't care about politics or follow it as closely as you". They're voting straight ticket. They're voting in every election. They only care about optics and identity politics. They don't fact check shit, they don't care about policy. They just care about sound bites and headlines.
1984 and Idiocracy are more similar than one realizes as they both turned out to be prophetic.
They do mean this. "Their own" just refers to anyone living off of investment or property income, with a seven-plus-figure net worth. Context is important.
Oh, the Conservatives take care of their own all right. Just what “their own” actually is has nothing to do with what they say in public.
Could they perhaps say whatever they wanna say until they see financial numbers in front of them?
I reckon all the smartest Canadians live in America. 😓
Can you elaborate?
They’re advocating to jump ship. Pathetic.
I was worried so, but surely we wouldn't go to a nation without healthcare to escape bad healthcare.
Trade "free" but unavailable health care for higher buying power, and lower taxes, but the requirement of health insurance.
Free but less available health care for completely unavailable healthcare. Poor people exist, yk.
Canadians who think the USA have a better medical system than Canada have never had to deal with American insurance. Any criticism wrt wait times and staffing that can be levelled at Canada can also be applied to the US. The primary difference is that in the US you are paying through the nose for the privilege.
Unless you are rich, then I imagine it is fantastic.