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I'll try to answer this a bit later, when the red mist in my head settles. In the meantime, I feel I have to point out that it is overtly racist while at the same time massively ignorant of reality. FNs choose to live in remote places with bad farmland? What the fuck are you talking about?

What a dishonest post. I just did point out that your premise on doctors being the social conscience on this issue is complete baloney. Now you are claiming it was' pointed out', as if you alone stating it makes it so. Doctors are the technicians in the process. The moral compass comes from pregnant women. Another fat lump of dishonesty: there is no Abortion on Demand camp. There is a very large camp in Canada that is pro choice, yet you consistently portray this as being pro abortion. You are free to misrepresent yourself, do not have the blithe arrogance of misrepresenting this majority of Canadians. Just so you understand clearly, being pro choice means that women can choose to have an abortion or not have an abortion. The other side, the laughably named prolife, would forbid women from making that choice.

Yes, clearly expenses like health care, education, national defence and some other inconsequential expenses have been privatized in some alternate universe. Send us a postcard please.. What cuts are those? Are you referring to the action by Harper to stop the escalation in increases to health care, but not the increases themselves? Clearly your province is spending too much on health care and not enough on basic math education. Nothing prevents a province from allocating more to health care, allocating less, listing or delisting covered services, assigning more or less to any other spending priority, or raising provincial taxes or user fees to accomplish their social agenda. But that would come with a political cost, and there is always somebody to whine on their behalf and help them avoid making the hard decisions required by reality. Now who might that be?

Your claimed American opinion is appreciated and valued. We are an egalitarian forum that seeks opinions , with some exceptions, none of them notable. Carry on

I hope your OCD is easily treated. Best of luck.

Mild thread drift: some good movies with a beauty pageant theme, try the comedies Little Miss Sunshine and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Much darker and with a more tenuous pageant link is Miss Bala, a Mexican entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar a few years ago.

In my experience of both the public and private sectors, it is far less common in the private sector. In both sectors, comeptence is often rewarded. But in only one is incompetence often challenged. The reason is simple: money. If a senior manager hires a series of incompetent managers, profits will be affected. The refreshing thing is that the senior guy may well be the first one canned, since the bad hirings are on him. In the public sector, its much more likely that everybody gets shuffled out of harms way, better people are moved in, and everybody gets paid indefinitely. Huh.

Nope. What is settled in Canada is that abortion is a medical issue. The only opinions that are involved are those of the woman , and she has the right to consult her physician on the issue. Or not. Up to her. If that involves a crisis of morality for the woman, it involves her and only her, or others as she alone chooses. I know it hurts to be permanently out of that loop, but your only recourse is to obtain your own uterus. That is an easy one. Legislation CREATES court battles, and induces changes to legislation on abortion. It does not really matter what the law says, as long as it exists there is a crack to work on. The prolifers know this very well and would be in court continuously from every angle all the time. The US, with Roe vs Wade and countless cases derived from it, have cases before the courts in many states all the time. That results in a fractured and expensive regime of abortion laws across the country. It's a war of attrition and never ends. By contrast, Canada has no law, so there is little in the way of case law to challenge, anywhere. It must be maddening to the prolifers. They have lots of money and plenty of committed people, and they cannot begin to begin.

Applause. Time to end the farce and dramatically decrease regulation, including the increasingly silly Can Con requirements for TV. The govt has other venues and means to promote 'culture'.

Nobody that is actually rich earns wages, regardless of education or skill. So envy on.....

Nope, that is not what I said. Your passport privilege can be suspended by Passport Canada if they decide you are too irresponsible to securely hold one. There is no requirement for a criminal conviction, chronically losing them is enough.

Centralization, in a country several thousand kms across? Makes sense. Not. You won't have any problem then when your mother is warehoused in the wonderful, efficient central facility in Brampton. You can visit her from Terrace BC anytime you want. The provinces have nearly complete control over raising revenue through taxes. They have control over their costs to a large degree, in the sense that they can choose what is included in their own health care model.. There is also the huge backstop of equalization payments for regimes that can not or will not provide health care funding equivalent to other provinces. What is missing is not central control, but the political spine at all levels to have a frank and realistic debate about health care, and the courage to carry through on decisions It has to start with the premise that we cannot keep everybody alive forever, which means medical decisions will be influenced by money. Another premise is that not all currently funded procedures will be paid for by the state, many will be delisted. I don't see any politicians of any stripe willing to even speak honestly, much less act. The French system also has user fees. You pay cash from your own pocket every time you visit a doctor.

I don't get your numbers at all, or the point you are trying to make. Rehabilitation of infrastructure such as roads, water and sewage treatment plants, hospitals, police and fire services etc is rarely a federal responsibility. There are few federal roads relative to the overall highway network- the highways in national parks and the Alaska Highway are two examples of federally maintained roads but these are a tiny part of the total. Provinces and municipalities are responsible for the vast majority of infrastructure. Both raise funds via taxation for this purpose. The feds spend money on First Nations infrastructure because they have treaty and constitutional obligations. First Nations have no choice in it. They have no powers of taxation on the land where the infrastructure is located, and they don't own the land either.

What happened today at the CRTC hearings? Last week the chairman of the CRTC gave the CEO from Netflix until today to comply with the demand for detailed info, or else. The CEO failed to quiver. Did Netflix comply?

Late term is both bad and unusual, but is there any way there could be some retroactive abortions here?

Nearly all of them are immigrants here in his business. Ukranians, Russians, Mexicans, Filipinos. The only locals are students and they are often useless. The trades also have plenty of immigrants, though they have to get certified as journeyman which can be timeconsuming.

or, it can mean no enforcement of a law, which is often the case with possession of weed now. A recent example would be the long gun registry, very few violators were charged and the cops and Crown just stopped trying..

That is without question a public service story.

No, she was not convicted of anything. You have no right to a passport. Period. It is not your property

being 'careless' with your passport. I have a niece who got her first one at age 21. Over the next 20 months she had it replaced twice, once because she lost it(legit), the next because it was stolen(I suspect she sold it). With the stolen one, the CDN Embassy gave her a passport with a short expiry date, enough to get her home. That one got completely soaked (drunken escapade)and was severely damaged though legible. When she arrived in Canada, they kept the letest one(surprise!) at airport Immigration. She later got a letter saying they were investigating the circumstances and to contact the passport office. She was invited in for an interview and there was advised no passport would be forthcoming while the investigation took place. It would take about a year. That was almost a year ago. They were very pissed with her. No guarantee she'll get another, but if I was betting I think she will get another soon. I also had a passport stolen in Senegal(legit), and got a short term one for 6 months as I recall. No problem renewing though when I got home.

Good point, and a compelling reason to terminate the extremely plump and overly generous benefit and defined benefit pension schemes enjoyed only by the public sector. We can begin by moving to a defined contribution plan We just cannot afford your excellence any more.

It matters to me, and it should matter to professional baseball players.

Excellent post, thanks for sharing it with us.

Can the Jays remain at or above .500? Nailbiting tension!!

Also incorrect. It is not uncommon for passports to be denied or removed and it has no impact whatsoever on Canadian citizenship. I have an example in my family.