RSSConfidence? Not in the Conservatives.
Nov 24
Looks like the wheels have been put in motion for a no-confidence vote to potentially bring down the Liberal minority government in Canada.
Stage set for government defeat
Such a strange thing, seeing the NDP and the Coservatives on the same side.
Recent polls seem to agree with my feelings: even with a scandal involving a few tens of millions of dollars, I’d rather have that than the Conservatives. It will cost this country a lot more when the Conservatives bring down public health care. (If you doubt that read In Their Own Words: Stephen Harper)
I’m not sure which party I align with most right now, the Liberals or the NDP, but I’ll definitely vote Liberal to help stop the Conservatives. The likely outcome of this election will be another Liberal minority. But, even if the Conservatives won a minority government it’s still not that bad. The NDP and Liberals are much closer together ideologically and would be fighting the Conservatives the whole way.
Nov 26, 2005 @ 20:17:56
Neil, I didn’t see anything on that site saying that the Conservatives will bring down public health care. The closest thing that Harper said was “It’s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act and transferred tax points to provinces to allow them to run health care as they wish, as is laid out in the BNA Act.”
Putting aside for the moment that Mr. Harper is absolutely correct (the Canadian Constitution clearly states that health care is a matter of provincial jurisdiction), since when does suggesting that removing a particular Act regarding a policy equal discarding that policy altogether? If I were to state that an American politician who suggested repealing the Patriot Act was going to entirely bring down national defense and security, wouldn’t that be just as much of a non sequitur?
Nov 28, 2005 @ 11:47:50
Steve,
Harper is in favour of privatization and wants to take down the federal legislation that guarentees universal access to health care. Both of these are mentioned in the linked list of quotes.
If he were to realize those goals how would that not be the end of public health care?
I agree that given his position we still *may* end up with universal access and private delivery, but given that he wants to take away the guarentee we don’t know for sure. Plus, given the historical Conservative position on health care (privatization, tiered systems, etc) I don’t trust he’d go that route if he had the chance to take away the Act.