You do realize that our health care system is already a hybrid system, right MarchHare?
Nobody, anywhere, at any point, any time has suggested anything close to a us-style health care plan.
We are not headed to privatization of hospitals or US-style HMOs.
If you think otherwise, you have been absolutely brainwashed.
As far as same sex marriage goes, a slim majority of Canadians oppose changing the definition. 52%-44% according to an Environics poll released March 10.
However, nobody has stated a desire to reduce or remove rights for gay unions. While the US is reducing rights for gay couples, Canada is merely fighting over a word.
Oooh, some boogeyman!
Personally, I think the government should simply remove the word "marriage" from the books altogether. Truthfully, it doesnt matter. I will never consider a gay union a marriage regardless of the official definition. Similaraly, I will never consider a common-law union a marriage either, regardless of current laws. It is a fight over a word. Remove the word, remove the fight, and let people decide on their own what to call themselves.
As for Iraq, what Harper would have done is irrelevent. The war is long since passed. Anyone that makes that an issue this time around is just searching for an excuse to remain ignorant. They also ignore that conventional wisom was that if Martin had been PM at the time, he might have supported the war.
Of course, Martin being who he is, he would have waffled and stalled until the entire war passed him by. If there is one word that describes Canada under Paul Martin, it is "irrelevent".
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