Well who’da thunk it? A national old mainstream media paper joining me, way over here in Duh! Wake-Up People Land!. I’m sorry the process of wakey wakey is taking so long for Canadians. It’s not like the coffee hasn’t been strong enough and that its aroma hasn’t been wafting through the house for years.
The National Post’s lead editorial reflects nearly all of the things I’ve been saying for eons.
Canada’s health care system is distinct from those of all other Western nations in two respects. Firstly, Canada is the only free country in the world that forbids citizens from paying for essential health services with private insurance. Secondly, we are the only nation that has defined a particular mode of health care delivery as a core element of our national identity. Anyone who dares question the public health monopoly is branded a dangerous extremist—even a traitor—by an influential constellation of activist groups, labour unions and left-leaning media outlets.
Thus has the health care debate in Canada remained frozen in a Trudeau-era time warp. Of the four parties in Ottawa, not one has the courage to challenge the status quo. Indeed, in the last election, the Conservatives actually promised to spend more on public health care that the Liberals.
Beaten down by socialist propaganda, most Canadians have accepted such excruciating indignities as the price of being morally superior.
[…]Supreme Court rulings do not make for light beach reading. But we would urge Canadians to at least peruse paragraphs 61 through 69 of Justice Deschamps’ opinion—for it is here where she says what few politicians dare: that there is no evidence public and private health care systems cannot happily coexist in Canada, as they do in Europe.
To help you out, that passage is a little more than a third of the way down when you click here. Or, if you like, search for this string in the text using your browser’s “find” tool: To determine whether the Attorney General of Quebec has discharged this burden
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