For about a week, along with hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, I have been keeping an online vigil for 95-year-old Harry Leslie Smith.Harry had been battling pneumonia in a hospital in Belleville, Ontario.He fought bravely, but early this morning that battle finally ended. But what a
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and Lynton Crosby’s Monstrous Lock Box
Well there was Stephen Harper in Quebec yesterday, locking a promise never to raise taxes into a giant safe.Vowing to put a tax lock on our future. Stephen Harper is making a promise to keep his promise. A re-elected Conservative government would introduce so-called “tax lock” legislation that would prohibit increases
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Sinister Plan to Kill Our Medicare System
Over the years I have written dozens and dozens of posts about the way Stephen Harper is planning to slowly strangle our precious medicare system.This one being the latest.And the reason I have is because NOTHING he is doing bothers me more. For it would cause mass misery, and be the end
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Harper Cons Don’t Listen to Canada’s Doctors
In the aftermath of the SARS crisis of 2003, the government created the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the position of Chief Public Health Officer to strengthen this country's medical defences.After they were shown to be almost catastrophically inadequate.But now Stephen Harper and his Cons are slashing the Public
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Dr Chris Lectured Stephen Harper
He's been slowly killing medicare in his usual creepy stealthy way. Nibble nibble, gnaw, gnaw.Killing it with neglect, and preparing to bleed it dry. So most of it can be privatized, just like the Cons in Britain are doing to that country's National Health Service. The magnificent system that inspired our own.And most
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Final Assault on Medicare
It's been less than two months since the Cons let the Canada Health Accord expire. And the corpse is still warm.But I see that Stephen Harper is in a hurry, and has given the order to begin the second phase of his plan to kill medicare. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Battle to Save Medicare
It was good to see Canadians out in the streets across the country today, sending a loud message to Stephen Harper:Take your grubby paws off our medicare system. On the day the Canada Health Accord died. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Stealthy War on Medicare
On Monday the Health Accord between the provinces and the federal government will expire.There will be no longer be a signed agreement to enforce the five principles of the Canada Health Act.The Health Council of Canada, the independent agency charged with monitoring our healthcare system, will cease to exist.And although
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the War on Medicare Continued
As you probably know, there is nothing I fear more than what Stephen Harper is planning to do to our precious medicare system.Because he has always hated it, it represents everything he loathes about Canada, and its values.He went into politics with the support of an organization that was created to destroy
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con War on Medicare
He has waited a long time to make his move. From the day he was first elected with the support of a group that was founded to kill medicare.He had to restrain himself for so many years. But it was always going to be the biggest, bloodiest, and most prized
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