In a landmark ruling today, the Supreme Court of Canada division of the Liberal Party has decided that the ban on private health insurance in Quebec is unconstitutional.
Quebecers can now go and get private health insurance.
The end could be near.
(Of the stupid, ridiculous, socialist, liberal-left, ideologically-driven, insane, and now apparently unconstitutional North-Korean-style Canadian health care system.)
[ HERE’S THE ACTUAL SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT ]
UPDATE: I changed the headline replacing the word “Canada’s” with “Quebec’s” because it seems the Liberal Party-appointed justices jammed-out and couldn’t admit that it also violated the Canadian Charter of Rights. Three said it did, three said it didn’t, and one just “forgot” to say anything. Asked “why?”, the official answer seems to have been, “well, because.” Saying anything would mean it would have violated the Canadian Charter of Rights. Can’t have that.
I also clarified that the Supreme Court is a division of the Liberal Party of Canada.
The state-run CBC has, on its state-run Newsworld program, a constant stream of leftists commenting on the ruling. It’s their opinion that matters, see?
UPDATE 2: A spokesman from the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation (fairly conservative and free-market-ish) approached the microphone for his news scrum moment, started speaking, and a blond-haired reporter that I didn’t recognize, back and to the left of him, visibly rolled her eyes, scowled slightly at the mouth, and shook her head left and right as he spoke. VCR now recording the state-run media, in case they repeat that scene.
UPDATE 3: Jacques Chaoulli and his patient George Zeliotis who brought the case to the Supreme Court and argued that the ban on buying private insurance for health care infringed on Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and also argued it violated the Quebec charter spoke in a news conference, which, surprisingly, the state-run media covered.
They started the honest debate about Canada’s healthcare system again. I’ve tried to do that but I’m not important. I’ve pointed out that 28 countries have universal access healthcare systems, many without any waiting lists, because they have allowed private enterprise to save their systems. But liberals—all liberals—including even the ever-so-honorable health minister Ujjal Dosanjh, insist on propagating and nurturing an entirely dishonest debate about it by pretending that it’s either our decrepit, socialist system—or it’s a credit card system in which only “rich people” will get treated for illnesses—and all “working people”, “children”, and “women”, oh and “old people”, will die, see, because they didn’t qualify for a VISA credit card.
Will bet my entire life on this prediction: The media will follow the liberal-left lead and again turn this back into a dishonest debate by saying “American-style healthcare system” as many times as possible in the coming days and weeks.
UPDATE 4: Minister of gay marriage Irwin Cotler entered into a news briefing and did what he does: barked things out of his mouth as if he’s the most angry human the world has ever known. He also did that uniquely Canadian thing: he spoke in English, then in mid-sentence switched languages to French, ensuring that half the population didn’t understand what in tarnation he was trying to say, his dog-barking speaking style quite aside.
Then Minister of North Korean-style Healthcare Ujjal Dosanjh (or as Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham called him once, “Ujjanana Dooosanajahanna” or something, as I recall) approached the microphone and spoke neo-communist. I’m not fully conversant in that language, but I did hear words something like these: “no need for private enterprise”, “more public money”, “we’re working to fix it”, and “workers must rise up!” (OK that last one might or might not have been from the Communist Manifesto).
UPDATE 5: Liberal Prime Minister Paul (“we lead the world”) Martin approached the microphone. He sounded more nervous than usual. Which is to say that he was visibly shaking in addition to his uncontrollable stuttering. He made out like he was already miles ahead of this judgement by having already agreed with other socialist politicians to dump untold BILLIONS of our taxpayer dollars at the problem in order to, once again, not fix it. Apparently he still doesn’t get it. That’s “progressive”!
One reporter shouted, “doesn’t this spell the end of the dream of Tommy Douglas?” and actually audibly laughed as he asked it, as if to unwittingly reflect this attitudinal quality: “that’s what the idiots on the right are saying…. and, like, as if, eh?!!”
UPDATE 6: The state-run CBC did in fact re-broadcast the media scrum with the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation spokesman (see UPDATE 2), and I got it on tape. Now I have to figure out how to digitize it and present it to you all. The reporter seemed aghast that the spokesman uttered a variation of a famous slogan (“one small step for man….”) which he thought represented the reality of this situation. I have not happened to have noticed any reporters ever looking quite so askance at the liberal utterances of “Hidden Agenda ?” or “American-Style Healthcare System ?” or “Conservatives Are Scary ?”, or “Gay Marriage Is A Human Right ?”.
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