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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Staying on topic, I don’t own a profitable corporation. So I’m not sure why you’re dodging what I specifically brought up and trying to spin it into tax increases for all. Only one group(profitable corporations) received tax breaks under this government.
You just had someone tell you that they are doing just that, and here you are trying to argue that nobody does it.
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I am not dodging your what you brought up, I actually provided what may need to happen. It's not really discussed at all but Canadian health care is really at a massive crossroads here. Massive, across the board issues in every province across all political spectrum. Just recently all the Premiers in Canada demanded $28 billion in ADDITIONAL funding annually + inflation as a STARTING point on attempting to fix health, that's attempting to try and get some semblance on track. Our federal government came back with $4 billion a year Less than 15% of the ask. So what is that going to do? Does it occur to the average Canadian that despite us having nearly $1.3 trillion in debt, that virtually every city, town and hamlet is having difficulty getting an emergency ambulance dispatched for life saving treatment? People are dying in ER waiting rooms, having life altering events occur while waiting for surgery and treatment.
At approx an additional $150 million a day in NEW debt to Canada on just federal debt, you think we, you, me, Albertans and Canadians are going to get out of paying more? Like a lot more? One of the reasons why the federal Liberals came up with that $4 billion a year, for 10 years deal, which by the way is like BS money, is because the credit card balance and the borrowing is getting a little too uncomfortable from the accountants and the economists at the Finance ministry. They need to reign in the spending and or grow the economy or add significant revenues.
If we are going to actually quit playing games with Canadian health care, quite the game with pretending we don't ration health care and get bloody serious about funding health care to the tune hundreds of billions of additional financing over the next short while, than yes, it may cost me and you more and everybody else.
As for voting on policy, as I have said, we usually don't vote on specific policy in Canada. This isn't American politics where on the ballot are an array of different plebiscites, proposition's and different people running on specific issues. County commissionaire, coroner, district attorney, water commissionaire , legalize pot, criminalize gay marriage, outlaw guns, guns for 9 year olds and all that other crazy American crap.
When you vote in Canada for your provincial and federal elections you mark an X with a golfball pencil next to a name of a of specific political party. Usually, that's it. If your specific policy isn't on the ballot, you are not voting for a specific policy, you are voting for a political party as a supporter or voter of that party.