Omni

Well, we're getting there.

I'll be happy to explain basic math to you some time, but for now just try to understand that when you cut an increase in half, that is a decrease.

Maybe you should try to catch up a little bit. http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/americans-moving-to-canada-increase-canadian-job-searches

I would remind you that Trump just got elected today. I don't imagine there are a lot of numbers available just yet. I do know one gal from Cal. who is going to UBC on a student visa and she says she is seeking a permanent residency here. I'm sure more will come.

I bet you Americans voting with their feet will trump Trump. There is a reason that website is crashing it is a 60% increase of traffic from.....America.

Immigration Canada never crashed until the DJ from Cape Breton put up his site to invite Americans to come there if Trump was elected and put a link to the gov. site. The beaches are beautiful down there.

Well what is important is that they do get a new formula worked out before next year. Healthcare is important.

We'll see how often the Immigration Canada website crashes now that Trump has been elected.

The 6% runs out next year. Then certain provinces that don't have the best of GDP's could drop to 3%. There should be a better yardstick.

Martin's deal was plus 6% each year, each province.

Healthcare payments will carry on, but they could go as low as 3% from the previously guaranteed 6%. That's quite obviously a cut. Perhaps the 6% across the board wasn't the correct approach, but the math speaks for itself.

Reducing the increase is a cut.

And since it goes up by possibly half the previous rate, that's a cut.

I certainly agree that health care must be one of the most complicated files in the folder. We have a province like BC who has currently the strongest gdp growth in the country along with a relatively young population, and Nfld. which has a rather weak economy with an much elderly population. Trying to square that circle in terms of transfers has to be difficult. Hopefully we can come to an agreement where we take care of each other no matter which coast we live on. It's the Canadian way.

He based the escalation on GDP with a minimum set at 3% as opposed to what was in place i.e. 6% annually set out by Paul Martin which ends next year.

Harper proposed to cut the xfers from 6% to 3% by next year. Then he got voted out.

The previous conservative government simply chose to cut back on transfers to healthcare. That's tough on an ageing population. At least the current federal government doesn't mind to sit down with the premiers, unlike Harper. It may take more meetings than one.

I imagine the residents of Fifth Avenue will be "overjoyed"

That's right, I guess we should all have known that Americans would get sucked into the vortex of nonsense. I just wonder what happens down the road when all those rust belt workers are still out of work.

Once a xenophobe, always a xenophobe.

I must say I like the mix of measures you get in a metar/taf.

Perhaps because I know how to read.

I get a pretty good idea of what he thinks by what he says. How do you estimate peoples thoughts I wonder? Or are you just happy with any nutbar?

Except you don't seem to actually have any numbers, only the same old rhetoric.

Yeah heaven forbid that the majority of the population should choose their own leader.