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I am not suggesting doctors be shuffled from public to private. The system needs to change in a huge way. Private systems are run by private companies supported by investors who are going to make a return on their investment. So government would need to get out of the way and let them operate. The public health care crisis is caused by government intrusion or Socialism poking it's long nose in every detail of health care. How doctors are obtained from other countries and how they are educated in Canada would probably have to change too. The whole system is a mess. You can't fix a flawed system. Canada's health care system has been failing for years. Why hasn't it been fixed if that is possible? Socialism needs to be tossed. It is the problem. It caters to powerful unions that also create a huge problem. The power of unions needs to be cut as well. They cater to the chosen (members) at the expense of the public.

Move to China or Cuba yourself. Norway and many other countries are rated far ahead of Canada for health care.

That is the big question that is being debated. Die-hard Socialist believe in banning any private insurance or private care and think public health care is the only system we should have. While people debate, Canadians are dying on waiting lists and for lack of urgent care. I don't see how this is right. Canada is the only country in the world that goes out of its way to deny allowing private care. I see this as a violation of basic human rights. Even if a person is willing to pay something and has a home worth over a millions dollars and a good pension or lots of money invested, he does not have the option in Canada to get quick health care in all cases. One reason why there should be a parallel private health care system is public systems are by their nature inefficient and bureaucratic. In Canada, the public system is strongly dominated by powerful unions who are only looking after their members. A private system could be competitive and have some motivation for faster and more efficient service. If the people running it do not produce, they can be more easily let go and replaced. One of the problems with the public system now is it is very expensive for a doctor to operate his practice. “Canada is the only country in the world where it is illegal to obtain private health insurance when there are long wait-lists. That surely says something,” said Dr. Brian Day, medical director of Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver and past president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). Day, whose private clinic in Vancouver has been up and running since June 1996, has long been advocating for a parallel private system in the province. He launched a legal challenge to the B.C. Medicare Protection Act, saying wait times in the public health system are too long and stopping patients from paying for those services outside the public system violates their rights. 2:35Code Blue: Canada experiencing shortage of family doctors In July, the B.C. Court of Appeal dismissed the Vancouver surgeon’s challenge. However, in their ruling, the judges accepted that the act’s provisions “deprived some patients’ right to security of the person by preventing them from accessing private care when the public system had failed to provide timely medical treatment.” Days says the funding model needs to change in the country, adding that the “state-run monopoly” is killing Canadians. “The promise was that we would have a universal system where everyone was treated, but people are dying on wait-lists,” he said." " Canada’s health-care system is lagging behind some other high-income nations, according to some reports. A 2021 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked Canada’s health-care system 10th overall out of 11 countries. Norway was top-ranked followed by the Netherlands, Australia and the United Kingdom." ‘Dying on wait-lists’: Could private health-care solve Canada’s ER ‘crisis’? - National | Globalnews.ca Canada is a wealthy country in terms of natural resources. Why are we ranked 10th out of 11 countries in health care? It doesn't make sense unless you consider the bureaucratic and political part of it. That is what runs it in Canada. So it has to be the problem. Canada has a federal government and ten provincial governments plus territories. So having a public system means it is by nature very complex. That may be the problem. Governments by their nature are often very slow and inefficient. There are many demands placed on government for all kinds of services and funding. Public health care is just one of many demands on the agenda. What we have is a system that denies individual freedom of choice and forces Canadians to accept long waiting lists because there are people and politicians who believe Socialism is a gift from God. It certainly is not. More likely from the pit of Hell. Many Canadians are paying the price for the ignorance of some.

I don't think that is correct. You can read a summary of the Babylonian captivity in this article: "The Babylonian captivity or exile refers to the time period in Israel’s history when Jews were taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. It is an important period of biblical history because both the captivity/exile and the return and restoration of the Jewish nation were fulfillments of Old Testament prophecies. God used Babylon as His agent of judgment against Israel for their sins of idolatry and rebellion against Him. There were actually several different times during this period (607-586 B.C.) when the Jews were taken captive by Babylon. With each successive rebellion against Babylonian rule, Nebuchadnezzar would lead his armies against Judah until they laid siege to Jerusalem for over a year, killing many people and destroying the Jewish temple, taking captive many thousands of Jews, and leaving Jerusalem in ruins. As prophesied in Scripture, the Jewish people would be allowed to return to Jerusalem after 70 years of exile. That prophecy was fulfilled in 537 B.C., and the Jews were allowed by King Cyrus of Persia to return to Israel and begin rebuilding the city and temple. The return under the direction of Ezra led to a revival among the Jewish people and the rebuilding of the temple." For the complete article: What was the Babylonian captivity/exile? | GotQuestions.org

The funny thing is people like you don't even want people who can afford it to pay for private care which would take the pressure of the public system and help eliminate the waiting lists. Well go ahead and die on your sword fighting the truth that Socialism is a disaster. All it does is make every one who needs medical care suffer and those with lots of money will fly somewhere else to get the care they need. That is a dumb system. A better system would be a parallel public and private system which gave people who have some money to purchase health care insurance to utilize the private system and take the pressure off the failing public system so they can eliminate waiting lists and over work in hospitals and ERs. Everyone would benefit from such a system.

Pack your bags and go to China or Russia.

Yes and Socialized medical care and banning any kind of private care is turning out to be a disaster for Canadians. Yet we have people who still defend it, especially the NDP. Just mention a side by side system of private and public and they go nuts. Let everyone suffer equally is their motto. Some leftists would fight any kind of public/private mixture even if it helped to fix the failing public healthcare system. They would rather see Canadians die than give up their failed Socialist ideology that is a disaster. It is time Canadians wake up to the disastrous Socialist health care system that is killing people.

Looks like many people get scraps from the public health care system. Why not allow people who can afford it to get private care in Canada and eliminate the waiting lists in the public system. Then nobody would get "scraps".

I just quoted it to you. It is in the Bible and has been for well over two thousand years since Moses wrote it. "7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession" Genesis 17:7 KJV God does not need to give a "legal document". He spoke it to Moses and it was written down in Scripture. God the Holy Spirit inspired Moses to write the book of Genesis which includes God's everlasting covenant with Israel which included giving Israel everlasting possession of the land of Israel. If you want to oppose that and fight against God that is your choice.

Treaty with who? This might come as a surprise to you, but Israel does not need a treaty with anyone. God gave them the land several thousand years ago. Read the King James Bible or Holy Scripture. That is inerrant and infallible. That is far superior to any kind of piece of paper or treaty. They don't need a treaty. What the heathen say about it is irrelevant. quote 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; " Genesis 17:7 KJV There is no debate. It all ends with what God said. He is sovereign.

"From patients dying on waiting lists to “critically ill” patients being asked to share a single hospital bed , our system is in crisis. A recent Leger poll found that 64 per cent of Canadians believe it needs a “major change” while only five per cent felt more money was the solution. The public overwhelmingly understands that 30 years of throwing money at the system hasn’t worked." Opinion: When Pierre Poilievre knocks on your door, demand health care choice (msn.com)

Guess you don't know all the so-called Palestinian territory actually belongs to Israel.. It is kind of like the natives in B.C. who claim all of B.C. (and more) as their territory. They claim it but it doesn't really belong to them. It is crown land and much is private land. FNs have been given ownership or control over certain specified areas but they don't own the vast territories they claim as their territory. It is the same in Israel. The land belong to Israel. It doesn't matter what the U.N. says. Israel does not recognize the U.N. which is basically an antisemitic organization. All you have to do is look at all the endless anti-Israel motions the U.N. passed over the decades to know that. If Israel listened to the U.N. they would not even exist.

Having hundreds of thousands of public servants working from home while practically everyone else in the country must go out to work and many do not have near the pensions and benefits that the public service has, doesn't look good. And they're being asked to go in only 3 days a week while everyone else has to go in 5 days a week. Still complaining. Make them go in 5 days a week like everyone else and if there is any trouble fire them. There is far too many public workers anyway. Increased greatly since Trudeau came in in 2015.

First the federal public service has grown enormously under Trudeau. Secondly, I don't think it can be generalized that the public service is more productive by working at home. There are lots of variables, different departments, and different types of work. " Barriers to productivity The employees who reported doing less work per hour faced different barriers to productivity. About one in five (22%) reported a lack of interaction with co-workers as the main reason why they accomplish less work per hour (Chart 1). Close to 20% reported having to care for children or other family members. The remainder faced different challenges, such as accessing work-related information or devices (11%), having to do additional work to get things done (13%), having an inadequate physical workspace (10%), or experiencing difficulty with internet speed (5%).Note " Working from home: Productivity and preferences (statcan.gc.ca) So I would prefer to see everyone working from the office. I think that is how most Canadians work outside the public service. It should be the same for everyone.

You obviously don't have much understanding of how things work over there. There are thousands of Hamas members and their only reason for existence is to kill Israelis and destroy Israel. With Hamas in Gaza, there is no such thing as a normal election. If they are left alone in a so-called peace arrangement, all that will do is give Hamas a chance to regroup, re-organize and rebuild their weapons and rockets, and prepare for the next attack on Israelis. They have absolutely no interest in peace and they are supported by other terrorist groups and Iran. They are not interested in the well-being of the people of Gaza.

The Jews were also dispersed to the rest of the world by the Roman Empire which destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. However, again this does not change the fact that God gave them the land in perpetuity. How do you know since you have not studied the Bible? You are just making wild assumptions.

You still don't get it. If you believed the Bible concerning Israel, your posts would not be tainted. So yes, the Biblical record of how Israel came to be and why it exists is directly related. You just don't want to admit it.

The problem is as an atheist, you would not believe the fact that the Bible tells us that God chose Israel as a special people for his purposes several thousand years ago and he gave them the land of Israel for perpetuity. This is of vital importance in the whole subject. The Jews are one of the only ethnic groups that survived in spite of everything that happened to them in the world in the past several thousand years. That alone is a kind miracle. They have also been the target of hatred by much of the world during the past 2,000 years and a third of them were killed off by the Nazis in the Holocaust. In spite of all that has happened, they miraculously re-established the state of Israel in 1948. But they know they must continue to fight for their survival.

" Later in life, he became a loud detractor of the federal Liberal party and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. He was also an outspoken opponent of "wokeism," progressive ideology sensitive to systemic inequities, and argued in his column that conservative voices like his were being pushed to the margins. Former prime minister Stephen Harper expressed his condolences on social media. "Rex Murphy was one of the most intelligent and fiercely free-thinking journalists this country has ever known," Harper wrote." Broadcaster and commentator Rex Murphy dead at 77: National Post (msn.com) Will miss his columns. A truly gifted writer and commentator.

Clear as fog. You still have not answered my question. Why do you feel being an atheist and being non-religious has any relevance. Do you think it gives you a better understanding? Atheism does not give a person some kind of special view of the world. It is actually the opposite. It gives one a tainted or incorrect view of the world.

If you don't care who is in the wrong or who has the right to the land, how can you have an opinion on it? What does being an atheist have to do with it?

You are the one who pulled the atheism card and claimed you were non-religious, as if that make you really impartial. I explained it doesn't really. Some of your posts make sense and I would have to agree with a lot of what you say. But I am just telling you the truth; if you are atheist or claim to be, you don't have any foundation for right and wrong except humanism which is a faulty foundation. It is built on sand, not rock.

" What does the Bible say about atheism? Atheists are some of the most religious and faithful people ever. It takes an incredible amount of faith to be an atheist. Sun, moon, stars, oceans, the Earth, animals, babies, male, female, the human heart, emotions, our conscience, love, intelligence, the human mind, bone structure, the human reproductive system, biblical prophecies coming true all before our eyes, eyewitness accounts of Jesus, and more and still there are some people who deny God’s existence. Just stop and think about it. It’s impossible for something to come from nothing. To say nothingness caused nothing and created everything is absurd! Nothing will always remain nothing. J. S. Mill who was a non-Christian philosopher said, “It is self-evident that only mind can create mind. For nature to make itself is a scientific impossibility.” Atheism can’t explain existence. Atheists live by science, but science (always) changes. God and the Bible (always) remain the same. They know there is a God. He is revealed in creation, through His Word, and through Jesus Christ. Everybody knows that God is real, people just hate Him so much they suppress the truth. Behind every creation there is always a creator. You might not know the person who built your house, but you know it didn’t just get there on its own. Atheists are going to say, “well who created God?” God is not in the same category as created things. God is not created. God is the uncaused cause. He is eternal. He simply exists. It is God who brought matter, time, and space into existence." 25 Important Bible Verses About Atheism (Powerful Truths) (biblereasons.com)

You call yourself "impartialobserver" and claim you are atheist so "have no dog in the religious battle". Hate to have to tell you but atheism is a kind of religion in and of itself. It is a belief system which claims there is no god and therefore man becomes his own god. It exalts atheism as if it is the be all and end all of everything, when in fact atheism is nonsensical. The result of atheism is that one must believe that everything just happened by accident and that life has no meaning. If one is to accept that, then we are just a chemical accident that happened. There is no purpose for life and nothing to look forward to. That is the kind of religion atheism leads to. Sounds very depressing but that is atheism. Atheists also have their own biases and are not impartial. Nobody is "impartial" as you claim to be. You are biased toward the ideology atheism and all that it means. Of course it also means there are no absolute morals, no right or wrong other than what somebody says is right and wrong. You claim to look at the world impartially, but you are only fooling yourself. Everyone has their biases. Your beliefs would have to be a result of claiming to be atheist. I am not sure you are a real atheist. Maybe you are only thinking you are, but maybe you are unsure. Sadly there are some serious consequences for not believing in the true God of the Bible. That could mean you think our culture and foundation which is built on Judeo-Christian civilization is of no more value than any other. That means you would regard our culture as no more valid or no better than the Islamic culture or middle eastern culture which is Islamic. Perhaps you would think western culture is no more value than Buddhism, Sikhism, or Hinduism since all are false religions. Why would an atheist think Communism or Socialism is undesirable if there are no absolute morals or absolute right and wrongs in the world?

Britain had a tradition of unwritten rights. Canada tried to stick to that with its Constitution, but eventually succumbed to the U.N. declaration of human rights. Then in 1982 we adopted a written Charter of Rights. From that the Supreme Court of Canada uses these documents to create new interpretations which Parliament has no say in. We end up with a number of documents and rulings that set precedents. This is a gold mine for defence lawyers. They can pick and choose whatever they can find in documents and precedents to defend their clients. So you can see how if an immigrant or non citizen is charged with some offence, lawyers can resort to all kinds of documents and precedents to claim their client is innocent or not criminally responsible. If the accused is from another country, then there is always the claim that he didn't know all the laws of Canada and should not be therefore held responsible, especially for a first offence. Deporting people is also one of those things that can be appealed and drag on for years. There was a fugitive murder suspect, who apparently killed a number of people, from California years ago that appealed his extradition to the U.S. His case dragged on in the appeal process for at least five years. I wrote a letter to the Minister of Justice to ask what was going on with this. I don't write letters like that any more, but I was much younger then and naive. The Minister actually answered my letter and told me everyone has the right to the appeal process.