mcqueen625

Unfortunately you don't seem to realize that Blue Cross will only sell coverage to healthy people, and they asked if there is a pre-existing condition before a policy is written and accepted. If there is a pre-existing condition, IE; Diabetes, Heart condition, Hypertension, Cancer, and most other medical conditions you are automatically classified as uninsurable. so don't attempt to give people the impression that they can buy medical insurance for $42.00 per month, because it simply is not true. In fact any insurance company who offers medical insurance has the same policies.

I find myself living on a CPP Disability Pension due to an acute cardiac condition, along with Diabetes, and when my wife and I separated I found myself with absolutely no medical coverage to pay for my medications, and I am now forced to apply for Income Assistance in order to obtain the medications necessary to keep me alive. Yes, I know some of you scrooges would begrudge that coverage to me saying that I should purchase medical insurance, but the truth is that most insurance companies only want to sell coverage to healthy people, and when they discover you have developed a medical condition that they consider uninsurable they wait with baited breath for the first opportunity to discontinue your coverage. In my case up until October I had coverage, and between myself and Blue Cross my medications costs from January, 2008 until October 10th were approximately $8,000.00 and my annual income is under $12,000.00. I have been deemed by my doctors as totally disabled, and therefore unable to work at any type of work. Sure at one point before I had the heart attack I was gainfully employed, and purchased through my employment Long-Term Disability, which was cut off after two years on the grounds that in their opinion I was not totally disabled and able to go out and look for work. In the opinion of the claims officer (Clarica, now Sun Life Assurance) their definition of disabled differs from that of Canada Pension Claims analysts, but they never did explain how they reached that determination since they simply ignored all reports from my cardiologist and other Specialists. They even were willing to send me to a Occupational Therapist to assess my cardiac condition to determine how much I could lift and how much stress I could take. It was only after I asked them if they had a Cardiologist on staff did they decide that they were not willing to conduct the tests on behalf of the insurance company and the fact that they would be liable should I have another MI on their premises. So for all of you people who are dumping on those people unfortunate enough to have the financial resources to meet the necessities of life, I hope for your sake that you never find yourselves in the position I now find myself in. But you should never say NEVER, because I for one never thought that I would find myself in the situation I now find myself in.

Elizabeth May? What has she ever done to warrant a Senate seat, and what has she ever accomplished that qualifies her in any way to hold a Senate seat, aside from having a big mouth and few brain cells? Oh sorry, I forgot, she is likely as qualified as most of those presently occupying seats in the Senate.

Instead of appointing more useless party hacks to that retirement home in Ottawa, they should either completely abolish the Senate or elect it's members through equal representation from each province and territory, to specific terms in office, and to term limits. Politicians both federal and provincial should also be subject to term limits.

Judging by the way the RCMP has embarrassed themselves with their unnecessary use of tasers they don't deserve any increase at all. In fact the whole force should be disbanded!

Even many Liberal MP's are not in favour of Dion's power grab, and they know that by Dion aligning themselves with the NDP and the Separatists they have lost even their traditional support, and are even having major problems raising funds. The Liberal, and the NDP are virtually bankrupt and cannot afford to fund another election campaign. The result will be just what they don't want a Conservative majority, and the disappearance of he Liberal Party for decades. The Liberals have shown themselves to be a leftist-socialist party no different than the NDP, so when it comes time for people to mark their ballots, they are going to look at the NDP / Liberal alliance and choose the Conservatives instead. Why would any national party (Liberal, NDP) ever want to create the situation we would have under the coalition which would give the balance of power to a group of separatists? Some say, but the Bloc won't have any Cabinet seats. Duh!! They don't need Cabinet seats to control how the vote will go, they will simply tell the Lieberals and the NDP what they want in return for their support. That scenario is similar to a situation where the owners of multinational corporation do not run for political office. The answer is they don't need to because they own whoever gets elected anyway.

Just remember it was the Liberals who sent our military to Afghanistan, not the Conservatives. Remember the moron, Chretien?

The reality is that the coalition is all but dead with the departure of Dion, and his replacement by somebody with enough common sense to realize that to defeat this minority government would maen the end of the Liberal Party, since nobody knows for sure that the G.G. will not simply call an election if the government is defeated. Even she knows that the Bloc does not represent the vast majority of the people of Canada, and that they are simply a provincial protest party who's only concern and reason for participation in such a travesty is to hold Canada, the Liberals and the NDP hostage to get whatever they want for Quebec. Anyone with half a brain should realize that the Bloc has only one mandate, and the ROC can go to hell in a hand-basket as far as they are concerned, because all they are interested in is Quebec, not what is best for Canada. If the G.G. ends up calling a general election, the Liberals and the NDP will not be able to run again as separate entities as they have now exposed themselves and clearly shown the people of Canada that neither are any different from the other. They both stand for socialism, and socialism spells a tax and spend mentality, which is the last thing Canada needs in times of global recession.

If you look at the BLOC politicians and the Liberals for that matter they refer to THEIR huge energy projects but the truth is that those projects are sitting on land that is OWNED by Newfoundland & Labrador although Quebec has always thought of all of the land on the mainland including Labrador as part of Quebec. The truth is that Quebec has been stealing from Newfoundland & Labrador ever since that agreement was signed. Quebec is making huge profits from projects that they do not own, on land they do not own. I think the borders of Quebec should be redraw back to their original places and we will see just how much land Quebec has encroached on that was not part of Quebec originally.

I suppose someone has to give the morons who make up the judiciary in this country something to do. Being a lawyer does not make one smart. All it proves is that you are good and memorizing .

What are you talking about off senting taxes? For starters even if you were right it is not off senting taxes, that would be off-setting taxes, but only die-hard Liberal puppets would ever believe a fairytale like that. The Liberals have never imposed a tax that was revenue neutral, and this one has absolutely nothing to do with fighting pollution, but everything to do with imposing a tax that will increase the prices of ALL goods and services in this country, so for Dion to lie and say it will be revenue neutral it shows just how stupid he thinks Canadians are. Of course it will be revenue neutral for government because he plans to use this tax grab to kick-start more socialist programs that we will wind up funding through higher taxes in the coming years. Let's just think back to the Gun Registry that was supposed to be about $1 Million upon start-up per year and after that would be supported by registration fees. The truth is that the cost ballooned to close to $2 Billion, and was still climbing, and it never enticed one criminal to rush to the nearest registry office to register their illegal guns. I'm sick and tired of half-baked politicians telling me that they know better than I do how I want my money spent. Thank you very much, I'll make that determination myself, and it certainly won't be on socialist programs that require ever increasing amounts of money to keep them going.

You can't even argue logically, because the things you speak of have nothing to do with the subject of this forum. It's irrelevant about what the Tories did or didn't do, we are talking here about a carbon tax that is both ill-conceived and will make the poor and working poor of this country worse off than they already are. Income-tax reductions be damned as most of the people I refer to don't pay income tax anyway. For them the only thing that will happen is that they may have to visit the food bank or soup kitchen more often and that is assuming that those agencies have any food on their shelves to give to them. The Canadian Association of Food Banks has already spoken to this issue and outlined the fact that people will be far worse off than they are presently, and the agencies whom they rely on will also suffer from a huge reduction in donations. I can speak from experience when I say that already with the high costs of energy the numbers of clients needing the services of food bank or soup kitchens has gone up, and we haven't even got to the cold weather yet, when electricity bill will increase because people just can't turn off the thermostat and freeze. When the cost of living escalates, food bank donations decline right along with it. Presently in Canada approximately 720,000 individuals require the services of a food bank every month, and that number is expected to increase dramatically due to increased energy costs. After all of the years of Liberal socialist programs and all of the money wasted on useless programs like a gun registry, that by he way also did not do what it was supposedly designed to do, which was to take guns out of the hands of criminals. All it did under the Liberal was create yet another huge bureaucracy. I'm not sure what Chretien was thinking, but maybe during one of his delusions he dream of t all of the criminals in Canada in possession of illegal firearms would rush to the nearest registry office and register their weapons. Of course that didn't happen but they wasted how many $Billion. I know that rant was off topic as well but I was just attempt to illustrate just how ridiculous the Liberal are when it comes to dreaming up half-baked plans to siphon even more money out of the pocket of Canadians.

You just keep telling yourself that, and when the Liberals wind up devastated on October 14th, the Liberal Party of Canada will end up where they deserve to be, destined to become a party that will be years if ever coming out of the woods. It will be embarassing for anyone to even admit they were stupid enough to vote Liberal. Don't gt me wrong, I hold a Liberal Party card, but I wouldn't vote Liberal again if they paid me, because likely they would be trying to buy my vote with my own money. In NB we presently have a first term Liberal Premier and he is going to wind up as one of the only Premiers in history to serve only one term. He certainly won't get relected by his present record of stupidity and calous disregard for the people of this province.

What are you talking about when you say Dion will work with the provinces?? BC has already imposed their very own carbon tax that took affect on July 1st of this year, and already the prices on virtually all goods and services have increased. Ask the people of BC how happy they are with Gordon Campbell and his carbon tax. Now Dion wants to come along and give the knock-out punch by imposing his version of this rip-off on top of the shafting Gordon has already perpetrated on the people of that province. NB is also playing with the same idea in a province that is already one of the poorest in the country. I have to question why these stupid Liberals would want to do that to fellow Canadians?

Dion's talk about reducing by 1/3 poverty over his first mandate, and child poverty by 50% over that same time frame. Well, politicians have been promising to totally eliminate child poverty by the year 2000, and here we are in 2008 and thif anything the problem has gotten far worse, and that happend at least for 15 years with a Liberal PM at the helm. Dion can promise whatever he likes, becasue he is just like most Liberal politicaisn they wouldn't know the truth if it jumped out and smacked them. It's treally nothing more that a feel good comment meant to initiate a new social program with another huge bureacracy to administer it.