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Wal-mart is cheap, boutique stores are not as. Wal-mart is one stop shopping, boutique or small stores, not neccessarily and that equals to more time. So, it boils down to time & money. My mother is poor, if she can shop at a Wal mart so she has more money in her wallet for prescriptions, food, and her heating bill then I support her shopping at Walmart. I do not shop at Wal-mart because I would much rather support the little guys not to mention that it is a far better experience - the atmosphere, the characters you meet who actually will converse with you and feeling like you are a real part of the community, something I find we are really lacking these days - a whole other topic. That said, Wal-mart, or any other chain, when it moves into a community should become part of the community by paying decent wages, supporting local charity, and setting examples.

Well firstly when you have an abundance of people entering the country and using a system that have not paid into it, eventually it will catch up and now it has. Those mentioned European countries on the top of the list do not have mass immigration. It's a win/win for everyone at this point if we open up private hospitals. I think actually 30% of all Canadians would leave the public system within 10 years thus reducing the waiting lines and improving healthcare for those that need to use the public system. I used to be extremely against 2 tier systems because it meant that a person with more money gets better treatment that everyone else. Now being older and matured, I realize the destruction that needless, mass immigration has done to our country. As long as Canadians want to plug their ears up when the topic of immigrations comes up, non of our problems will ever get fixed. I agree...I used to be of the same mindset but, if people can and are willing to pay for immediate health care and it is more accessible thus less expensive, perhaps it will inevitably take the strain off the system and reduce waiting periods.