Two Canadians, with the help of a Canadian think tank, were heard making sense today. They said things that made common sense. Word has it that the state-run CBC will be launching a week-long series about it—it will be decidedly against this new concept of “making sense”.
Unfortunately for most Canadians, they spoke in “conservative”, but I’m bilingual and I can translate it for you.
They said that Canadian healthcare should be handled by the provinces and it should be legal to fix health care so people won’t die and be forced to live in pain—coincidentally the same dang thing it says in our constitution. The gall. I can only assume that if the Liberals are against this, then COTLER, the Liberal Minister of Gay Marriage, will quit. He’s all about the constitution, and finds things in there that aren’t even there.
Preston Manning and Mike Harris tossed an electoral hand grenade into the lap of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper on Wednesday, issuing a joint report calling for the federal government to get out of medicare and let the provinces experiment with private health services.
Manning, the Reform party founder, and Harris, the former Ontario Tory premier, insisted their report, commissioned by the right-wing Fraser Institute, was non-partisan. But it quickly became fodder for a potential federal election.
Prime Minister Paul Martin, seeking a respite from his woes over the sponsorship scandal, vowed to fight “tooth and nail” to defend medicare.
That last bit might have been a try at “humour” by the reporter. “Paul Martin… vowed to fight ‘tooth and nail’ to defend medicare”. Of course by “defend medicare”, he meant “defend the Liberal Party and socialism, and not let private enterprise fix healthcare because it would work, and it would therefore expose us as the farce that we are”.
Luckily I also speak “liberal”.
Then Martin let the cat out of the bag even while simultaneously ruining their whole re-election strategy: he said in the House of Commons, “The Conservative agenda is no longer hidden”.
Well Hell’s bells. There goes another slogan created by liberal-friendly ad firms! Now what? “The Conservatives have values! Values, I tell you!”
Not so catchy.
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