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Actually, it's the fault of GSK. They're stopping production of the adjuvented vaccine in order to make more non adjuvented vaccine. There will be a short dip in supply, and then it should be OK. None of this would be a problem if non priority people would stay away like they're supposed to.
Not quite. The federal government promised a certain amount to be delivered and they are the ones that contracted out to the company.
There would still be shortages even if every person who was supposed to get the vaccination got their shot.
In other words, Tuesday will see many places out of vaccine and it isn't just a question of demand. It is a question of what was expected in terms of supply.
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Not entirely. The delivery of vaccines is a shared responsibility with provinces and municipalities. In the first days, chaos erupted mainly because of long lineups at clinics. One factor was the laborious task of collecting and inputting info into computers where databases crashed. Also, the number of people showing up was under-estimated. Polls showed that 50% of Canadians were not interested in being vaccinated and the authorities probably took that into consideration in their planning.
I haven't let the provinces or health authorities off the hook.
However, the supply issue is a federal issue.
And now we have Bob Rae accusing the Conservatives of being complicit in H1N1 related deaths.Canada's delay in getting vaccines is starting to result in deaths. Other countries have been faster.
I wonder if Donolo, Ignatieff's new Chief of Staff and one time Chretien Communications guru, approved ofRae politicizing the death of Canadians. Or is Rae a maverick?
I wonder if Harper realizes that Canadian doctors are saying there will be more deaths if the vaccine is delayed because of shortages.
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On the contrary, I don't blame Harper at all.
And yet...
you don't have anything to say about Tory Senator Leo Housakos.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health...article1344606/
The federal government has warned the provinces they will receive less H1N1 vaccine than promised, forcing health-care clinics across the country to delay the rollout of their pandemic programs to the general public just as demand soars.Supply is so short in Manitoba that stocks could run out by next Tuesday. British Columbia is delaying plans to provide the flu shot to everyone. And health officials at a clinic in Toronto, unable to handle the crowds, turned people away less than an hour after opening.
Utter chaos across Canada and it comes down to the Federal supply. All the backslapping just a week ago and now this.
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Latest Decima poll on stimulus:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianp...hsOKJtaaITzcxQw
A new poll suggests the Harper government's multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded ad blitz to promote its stimulus plan doesn't seem to be having the desired effect.The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey also suggests most Canadians believe Liberal claims that stimulus spending favours Conservative ridings.
Less than a third of respondents to the poll said they were aware of any stimulus projects underway in their areas.
A majority said they believed there's favouritism in the handing out of cash, but they didn't seem to be too concerned about it.
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Difference is we NEED prisons.
We DON'T need a long-gun registry.
We have gone over this before. The police say the registry is something they want and need.
I haven't said we don't need to work on prisons. I am asking for a costing out of it. Still haven't seen it.
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Hmmm, seems to me I read that the premiers - all of them - lobbied Ottawa to end the 2 for 1 law that the judges invented.
Tha doesn't sound to me like they're too worried about the costs of their prison systems.
This is because it transfers people from provincial jails to the federal jails because of sentences larger than 2 years.
Other changes the Feds make though clog the provincial side of jails.
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Are you some kind of frenzied Mannitoba nationalist or just having a really bad day?
Think I was just making an observation that some people probably end up getting a boot to the balls when they act like donkeys.
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Not sure what your point is. All you seem to be saying is that if we did nothing, Manitoba badly needs more prison capacity. And if they need to build some new prisons anyway, then it's cheaper to plan them with a few more cells. If you don't want to fix Manitoba's problem by building or updating their prisons, are you saying we should let prisoners out even earlier?
I think my point is that Manitoba as well as other problems have a problem already and will have an even bigger problem with the Tory changes.
I keep asking to hear the financials on all this but I don't hear any details yet. I suspect much higher deficits.
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Sooner or later the Supreme Court will have to address the question of whether living in Manitoba is by itself a cruel and unuusual punishment, with or without the prison walls.
Sooner or later I'm sure someone will kick you in the balls. It's just a guess on my part but probably an accurate one.
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I simply do not wish to pay for it. If you love it, get out your wallet.
I realize that some people think Canada is a buffet where you can pick and choose. Don't like a war? Deduct my share from taxes? Don't like the CBC? Deduct my share from my taxes. Etc, etc.
It is a rather petulant attitude where we see some people screaming why should I pay for someone else's road when I don't drive? Why do I pay for someone else's water when I have a well? Yadda yadda.
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Sounds like a provincially created problem. You guys gotta learn to take care of your own backyard. Especially seeing as though Manitoba recieves billions of dollars in aid from the rest of us.
The laws filling the prisons are federal, not provincial.
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This prison building scheme is all part of Harpers neocon secret agenda. The entire NDP membership will be sent to special camps for re-education. He may also finally sent some of the Liberals involved in Adscam to jail. That alone would have them bursting at the seams.
There is nothing secret about Harper spending like crazy since 2006. We are going to see deficits for some time under Harper since he can't control himself.
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There will be a budget before a shovel hits the ground. But one can't know the cost until several things have been decided. Like where to build, how big to build, etc.
Which will be how many years after the legislation already starts seeing numbers built up in prisons already crowded?
This is a recipe for more escapes from murderers that we have already seeing in a few provinces under the Tories.
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Sure. But it's hard to imagine the building of a prison ending up 1000 times over budget. I mean, the Liberal's told us that the gun registry would only cost around 2 million dollars. And well, 2 billion dollars later, we recieved the actual bill. That must be a world record.
So you'll be okay so long as it doesn't hit the highwater mark. Acceptable if it is 100% over? 200%
Your fallback position will be that at least it didn't hit that mark? And if it did, I'm sure you would be saying it was justifiable.
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Not according to your link. It was "partly" based on overcroweded conditions.
Which led to the report that came out a few weeks later that showed that overcrowded conditions existed in every jail in Manitoba and was leading to troubles across the board.
It is hard to come to any other conclusion that the system is creaking under the pressure now and escapes, riots and other issues are going to come up even more.
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Gun registry vs Prison repair is not a good analogy, every prisoner is well and truly registered long before they arrive at prison.
Certainly the public will think differently if it escalates wildly in costs. They will only think about how it hits them in the pocketbook and what else might have been done with the money.
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Yeah, it's too bad the Liberal's didn't take that into consideration before their multi-billion dollar boondoggle. I wonder how many prisons could have been built with several billion dollars?
I never supported the gun registry and have said so.
Will you say the same thing if prison building goes wildly out of control?
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The problem is that Iggy choose to target the NDP and thought they could put the squeeze on Layton and crush the NDP support for their leader.....
And this is the result of that failed strategy.
The idea was not to be seen as supporting the government every time. The results could very well have looked like what we see now if they had supported the government back in September. I can imagine the NDP would have voted against the EI legislation then.
That's what happens when a leader looks down and not up.I guess if you're lucky, you will see the end of the Liberal party.
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It is easily done, all he has to do is introduce legislation to eliminate the subsidies to political parties.
It will really put the Liberal and NDP feet to the fire........we could be treated to the most hypocritical and prolonged verbal tapdance in history by Layton and Ignatieff......
The Liberals can live without it out now given the change in their ability to raise money.
However, I can imagine it would look bad for Harper who promised not to do it again.
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Exactly. The Liberal's gun registry comes to mind.
One of the thing to consider before embarking on a large prison building binge.
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I hope Harper waits until the spring at least before calling an election. Ignatieff isn't going anywhere soon and his numbers aren't either.
The danger for the Tories, of course, it is difficult to ride high in the polls given the unexpected. One disaster that is poorly responded to can be a gamechanger.
I find it hard to believe that Harper won't be the one choosing the election time. And the longer he waits, the greater the danger that is catches his government when they are down rather than up.
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Latest Ekos poll:
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/10/28/ekos-poll.html
Among decided respondents, the Conservatives drew 38.4 per cent support, followed by the Liberals at 26.8 per cent and the New Democratic Party at 16.7 per cent.The Green Party had the support of 9.9 per cent of decided respondents, while the Bloc Québécois had 8.2 per cent support, according to the EKOS poll, which was released exclusively to CBC.
I figure Ignatieff has about three months to right the ship.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/091029/cana...power_deal521_1
Hydro-Québec will pay an estimated $5 billion to purchase NB Power's nuclear and hydro generating stations, the transmission system and other assets in a massive deal set to be announced on Thursday.The combined value of the agreement is estimated at $10 billion, with the remaining $5 billion being attributed to rate relief that will be provided by the deal.
I don't know enough about the deal to say if it is good or bad.
It does look like the other Atlantic provinces are furious at New Brunswick for doing this though.
Ottawa says provinces to get less flu vaccine than promised
in Federal Politics in Canada
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The contracting out is his government's responsibility. The delay in getting the vaccine out later than other countries is also his government's responsibility.
The Feds guaranteed the supply and that is how the provinces set up their clinics.
You think the public is blaming the company entirely for the chaos, the supply problems and the growing numbers of people going to ICU?