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Get with the program. The transfers were always 22%. The Provinces wanted it upped to 35%. The Provinces got an additional $2 billion in July building on the $45.2 billion provinces and territories will receive this year. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2022/07/government-of-canada-makes-significant-additional-transfers-to-provinces-and-territories-in-support-of-health-care-and-transit.html https://globalnews.ca/news/9259403/ottawa-increase-health-care-funding-provinces/

Well said. Those are not a new problems. As for "Federal funding to the provinces has slipped to just 22% or the total. ", which is what it is supposed to be. The provinces want it increased to 35% but, where is the money gong to come from? Health care cots have gone sky high and considering it is a provincial responsibility, federal funding, while significantly increased ($2 billion in March alone), cannot keep up with the it. The provinces are the ones that distribute the federal funding. And then, in November, the provinces rejected federal increase proposals. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-provincial-health-ministers-reject-proposed-federal-health-care/ Those living in the past should know that.

A government also has rules and regulations it has to abide by. Government gets audited all the time. Departments withing get audited all the time. Government contracts get audited as well. So, you are comparing selling your fish at an open published market value the same as lobbying for a million or billion dollar closed bid contract?? Do you ever sell your fish to a specific buyer for a particular reason? Perhaps like they would buy from you exclusively or for a certain tonnage? Or do you sit at the dock and wait for buyers to buy your catch at your price? Do you ever change your price based on market pricing? Who drives the market price? Buyers? Mongers? Restaurants? Lobbyist set those prices? Quota? nothing to do with lobbying. All to do with who has the biggest fleet and can pay the cost. You said public domain not public interest. Public interest is a different thing entirely and it is debatable and for the general public, not specific. So, "What a political party does it is it's own business and is the domain or interest of its members" and when it gets into power, that is lost? Or do they take that with them while in power? Gotta ask yourself, if you are want openness in all things, why are there closed bid?? I am not a lobbyist but I do know how business is done, in and out of government. deals are made everyday on ,around and, under the table. Keeping and not showing your hand is how it is done.

Are you in business? Or at a level where you have to do deals with other companies, customers, clients or government? Thing is, realistically, keeping meetings secret is what keeps businesses in business. If all was as open as you think it should be, there would be no competitiveness. By letting your competitors know what kind of deal you are proposing or making would only ruin not just you but them too. There would never be competition. There is no such thing a "public domain" in business or in government (any government anywhere). Same goes for political parties, they all need an edge and being totally transparent would not benefit anyone. The realism is that while you think you should know everything, you should and are not entitled to.

How did Moms and grandmas of the past take care of their kids??? They certainly did not go to emergency when the kid has the sniffles or a fever.Yes, baby boomers (and older) were problematic during covid but the health backups today are younger moms not knowing what to do with their and kids.

Canada's climate change actions are a farce. No matter who the leader is. In camera or fully public makes no difference in lobbying. Most is done over lunch or dinner anyway. Realistically, full transparency is not achievable. Governments, as well as companies and even within your family, secrets are kept for any number of reasons.

That was my point. Canada has talked a lot and failed even more with climate change action. Never met objectives, failed at all promises and are worse than before this all began. Having said that, we are a still only a drop in the proverbial bucket of climate change causes.

Like the McGuinty and Wynne liberals in Ontario??? They listened, they implemented and now, unmitigated failure befalls "green" Ontario.

I disagree with all your points. Canada has to fix it's own house before anything else. It is about time we take care of ourselves. The earth will not even notice the minuscule amount Canada contributes to climate change. Canada needs a leader.

WTF???

While the Earth is important, this Country is far more important. While the climate crisis is an issue, Canadas contribution to climate crisis is a pimple on a horses butt. We need a leader for Canada, not for Earth (as Trudeau is trying to be) and the Greenies are too single minded.

But not necessarily delivering the relief needed

Give it up LOL People were told to get vaccinated and they did. No need to mandate vaccinations. They trusted people would do as they were told.

I don't believe any of the links you posted "described itself as hopelessly racist and oppressive to minorities?" I do not think any "universities are hotbeds of conservatism". I believe students come and go and make them whatever they are while they attend them.

Why are you calling Ottawa Citizen,. University of Windsor, UBC or the others you linked as Liberal organizations?? Are you actually believing what what you just posted? Are you drunk?? LOL

They did not have to make it mandatory, people did as were asked by the Government and complied. Yes and employer can, for the health of their employees, require covid vaccinations. "A company's policy on vaccinations may be considered legal if the government that regulates the workplace (provincial or federal) mandates vaccinations for that particular workplace or sector of employment."

Again, what nonsense are you espousing? It is the liberals that are the racists and white supremacists? Check the names of racist and white supremacist groups background. I think you will find very few liberal backgrounders. Your links prove nothing other than disclaimers from groups and organizations companies etc.

What nonsense are you implying? Your links are just institutions bowing to a woke society. No one group or organization wants to be accused of anything so they publish these and more disclaimers. If anything, it is republican/extreme right wing/survivalist types that are the problem. (proudboys, 3 percenters, minutemen etc)

Every country has its laws. You may not like it but hey, it is the way it is. Laws can be for maintaining public health and for preventing criminality and for democracy. You got a better way?? Oh yeah, you like anarchy.

Obey the laws of the country.

Fact is - Law abiding citizens do not require mandates they as Nike says....just do it......as "any reasonable, intelligent human" does.

Where and how and when did I say that??? I posted to dispel myata's constant use of Sweden as some sort of "example" of doing things right. Sweden did things their way and Sweden's law abiding population complied without mandates needed. They all got vaccinated voluntarily So, fact is, Swedens 110% vaccination worked well yet, they still had deaths before all the population got vaccinated.

Not sure what your point was. That there was no mandate? Or that they were not affected or vaccinated. Fact is Sweden, a very very controlled nation and peoples got vaccinated. They are not as "militant" as some Canadians and so their government waited and watched the Swedes line up for vaccinations and deemed mandates were not required. Swedes follow the rules set out by government, they do not need to be forced or mandated. So, you really have no point using Sweden as a comparison.

There have been 2,523,404 infections and 19,144 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic began." Sweden, population 10 million "Sweden has administered at least 22,674,504 doses of COVID vaccines so far. Assuming every person needs 2 doses, that’s enough to have vaccinated about 110.2% of the country’s population." "There have been 2,523,404 infections and 19,144 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic began."

Live as a country under constant threat of a part of Canada wanting to separate and using that to get more than the rest of Canada? So what? The French lost and only out of British kindness and conciliation does it still exist in Canada.