Will Liberal Jim Bradley attack Liberal Bob Rae's health-care ideas?!

above: an article in the Sept.8, 2011 St.Catharines Standard. Liberal Bob Rae admits that private health care insurance is an option in Canada. He didn't even bother to coyly couch his new found health-care views with the phrase "non-profit"!!

Now, let's go back, (all the way back, to Apr.19, 2011!) to hear what the very same Liberal Bob Rae was telling the Toronto Star:

"The Liberals’ Bob Rae says Stephen Harper is dodging questions on how to repair medicare because the Conservative leader doesn’t fundamentally believe in universal health care.
“Mr. Harper is a right-wing guy, and right-wing guys don’t believe in the Canadian health-care system. They never have and they never will,” Rae declared as the Liberals sought to keep up their aggressive campaign on the key issue of health-care.
“Over the last five years, this government has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to advance the discussions with the provinces” on the future of the publicly funded health-care system, Rae said of the Conservatives. “Mr. Harper has stood by as an absentee landlord. He’s done nothing.”
The Liberals have made health-care a central focus of their election effort and are questioning whether a re-elected Conservative government would have enough money to pay for increases in medicare funding in the years ahead.
The federal-provincial agreement that provides funds from Ottawa for health-care expires in 2014 and Rae said Conservative priorities may leave little room to expand medicare transfers to the provinces. Complicating the Conservative budget choices are commitments to buy new F-35 jet fights, which the Liberals say would cost $30 billion, and $6-billion a year in further corporate income tax cuts. As well, the Liberals say the Conservative plan to balance the budget in three years hinges on unexplained budget cuts of $11 billion.
“Mr. Harper has a long record of public statements opposing universal public health care in favour of private, for-profit delivery of health services—and given the risky spending and cuts in his platform, there is no reason to trust him,” Rae, the Liberal candidate in Toronto Centre riding, said Tuesday.
The Liberals have resurfaced previous quotes from Harper questioning the federal government’s role in the universal health-care system.
But in the campaign, Harper has said his party is fully committed to improving medicare and upholding the Canada Health Act. He said a re-elected Conservative government would continue to increase health-care transfers to the provinces by six per cent annually.
“Everyone is committed to continuing a universal public health-care system that is fully financed,” Harper said. “That is this government’s No. 1 priority and that will be its position.”
The Liberals and New Democrats have also pledged to continue federal funding for health-care and to protect the Canada Health Act."
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Isn't that precious!!
Look at Bob Rae's Liberal rhetoric just five-months ago; look at the Liberal U-turn now!!
This is the same hypocritical Liberal party which in 2004 shit on one of their own health ministers, Pierre Pettigrew, for daring to speak the truth about Canadian health-care! (see here, pg.17-20 )
You really have to wonder what these Liberals believe at any moment in time.
Where's the St.Catharines Standard report asking local Liberal big shots in Niagara to rationalize federal Liberal Leader Rae's grand health care plans?!!
Let's hear Andrew Gill denounce Bob Rae!!
Let's hear McGuintyite Jim Bradley rail on sanctimoniously about 'privatization', 'Americanization', 'slippery slopes' and 'two tier'!!
Let's hear McGuinty tell us how Rae is an agent of divisiveness; how Tommy Douglas is proverbially spinning in his grave!!
Let's hear Kim Craitor misunderstand that it was his federal colleague Bob Rae - a Liberal - (not "harris"!) talking about private health insurance!
I'm sure the St.Catharines Standard will be asking these local Grits to comment on Rae's... umm... 'hidden Liberal right-wing agenda'... won't they?!
Or maybe Niagara's Liberals will just be allowed to 'dodge the questions'!!
Certainly, Jim Bradley was an "absentee landlord" when 33 C.difficile-infected patients were killed in Bradley's Liberal health monopoly in Niagara, while Bradley hid from the issue all summer.
Come on, Liberals: defend your own years of failed monopolist deceptions and hypocrisy!
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Ontario's Liberal Public Safety Minister Jim Bradley fear-mongers about extremists, while local press asks no questions

It's really neat to see how St.Catharines radio station CKTB 610 on Sept.5 used a photo of the Ontario Liberal Party's campaign in their thumbnail web summary to accompany this story.
Is Jim Bradley's Liberal campaign paying CKTB for this advertising?
Or is it just friendly nudge-nudge-wink-wink free political advertising?!

When reporter Stephanie Sabourin wrote...

..."Details of the platform were leaked Sunday, which Tory MPPs say shows even some Liberals don't want another four years of Dalton McGuinty.
St. Catharines MPP and Minister of Correctional Services Jim Bradley says that's not the case, with a lot of Conservatives apprehensive about the extreme right wing elements that have taken over the party.
He says if there is any party with divisions, the Conservatives should be looking in the mirror".

...why didn't Sabourin then ask windbag Bradley to SPECIFICALLY explain and NAME these persons whom Bradley is alleging are 'right wing extremists'?

Liberal MPP Jim Bradley happens to be Ontario's friggin' LIBERAL Public Safety Minister.

Here was a senior McGuinty cabinet minister making these vile, unsubstantiated remarks - and yet, instead of immediately demanding answers and explanations from Bradley, the home-town kiss-assy press just acted as Liberal stenographers!!

Sabourin wrote half a story, the radio station then helpfully slapped a Liberal ad onto this "story", and Jimmy Bradley's campaign of sleaze and innuendo was off and running - no questions asked!!

Wow: CKTB can't do any better than this?? What a load of crap.

And, seeing that Bradley has now managed to crawl out of his Cone of Silence, where were Sabourin's pointed questions asking secretive Jim Bradley about the 33 C. difficile patients killed this summer in Bradley's Liberal health care monopoly?
Bradley has not said a word about this horror since it began some four months ago!!
Niagara's Liberal-lovin' press carefully made sure that Bradley was protected from scrutiny.

Did someone censor reporter Sabourin, preventing her from actually interviewing Bradley? Or is this just how JimmyFriendly politics works in Niagara? yep

Jim Bradley should take his own advice:
if Bradley needs to find out why his Liberal health-care monopoly is killing patients; if he needs to know why ombudsman Andre Marin noted that the Liberal's secret G20 law led to "a massive violation of civil rights - in fact, the largest in modern Canadian history", then all Jim Bradley needs to do is look in the mirror.
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Where's McGuinty's doomsday-global-warming rhetoric gone?!

It's amazing how Ontario Premier Dalton 'Pinocchio' McGuinty, with his last-minute whirlwind of half-baked Liberal pre-election bribes, has purposefully downplayed his Liberal climate-change activism. Ontario's Premier Liberal Liar and his Grit jerks such as Brad Duguid and Jim Bradley are playing against hope that the inconvenient truths noted in such reports as...

Peter Foster's "Scorched by solar" (National Post, Sept.3, 2011)
or
Lawrence Solomon's "Our cosmic climate" (National Post, Sept.3, 2011)

...have no basis in fact, but ravings by Al Gore, David Suzuki, and the IPCC, somehow, still do!!

After all, Liberal MPP Jim Bradley was squawking about the supposed-horrors of climate doom back in 2002 - and yet (as of Sept.5, 2011) this little global-warming-crapper HAS NOT revealed WHICH SPECIFIC scientist; WHICH SPECIFIC peer-reviewed scientific study, in existence as of 2002, convinced Bradley that greenshevism TM and climatalarmism TM were the answers to his paranoid man-made-climate-change delusions (and incidentally, also the answer to maintaining a profitable cushy political career!)

Jim Bradley had NO "scientific evidence" of AGW then - and he still has none now. It was Jim Bradley's own climate-fear-mongering which was man-made!!

Go, ahead: ask Niagara's secretive Liberal MPP Jim Bradley about his GreenFear TM kyodiotism TM; you can bet that his shoeshine crew at Niagara This Week and the St.Catharines Standard won't, especially during an election!! Can't tarnish Good Ole JimmyBoy's reputation!!

After all, these GreenFear TM spreaders unquestioningly helped spread Bradley's paranoid climate-change fear-mongering for years, pretending that it was real,  just because Bradley claimed it was.

Turns out, loyal statist soldier Jim Bradley was just another run-of-the-mill McGuintyite Liberal liar.
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Liberal Jim Bradley's sicko single-payer moralism

Karen Selick wrote in "Medicare, heal thyself"  (National Post, Sept.2, 2011):

"Pediatrician Karen Dockrill of Whitby, Ont., will go on trial in early October before the disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, charged with conduct that is "disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional." Danielle Martin, spokeswoman for Canadian Doctors for Medicare, was quoted in a recent National Post article, calling Dr. Dockrill's alleged conduct "unethical."
What are the heinous deeds of which Dr. Dockrill stands accused?
She owned and operated a facility called Mom and Baby Depot. For an annual $1,500 membership fee, the Depot provided parents with access to a team of child-care professionals, including breastfeeding consultants, nurses, nutritionists, social workers and a chiropractor. Members could phone in, 24 hours a day, for medical advice, including from Dr. Dockrill herself - reportedly a godsend to inexperienced parents.
Because of the membership fee, Dr. Dockrill was able to offer longer office appointments than the standard well-baby check-up for which OHIP (the Ontario Health Insurance Plan) pays practitioners only $32. But those longer appointments and all that telephone advice (for which OHIP pays nothing) also meant that she had to limit the number of patients in her practice. The College alleges that only babies whose parents paid membership fees were accepted as regular patients.
Ms. Martin, the medicare cheerleader, says it's unethical to "require people to pay again" for something that is already paid for by tax dollars.
But what if taxpayers aren't really getting what they're supposedly paying for? Ontario residents might pay several thousand dollars per year into Ontario's coffers but still find that a 10-minute appointment - all the doctor can afford to give them at OHIP rates - is insufficient to answer all their questions or resolve their children's health problems. Other taxpayers - roughly 7% of Canadians - can't find a family doctor at all. They spend hours waiting with sick infants at overcrowded hospital emergency rooms or walk-in clinics.
No discussion of ethics can ignore the distinction between coercion and voluntariness. Coercion is the very essence of socialized medicine. Under Canadian medicare, extra billing is verboten. User fees - verboten. Competing with the government's monopoly health-insurance plan - verboten. Withholding your tax payments until you get the promised services - verboten.
Forcing people to pay for services and then not providing them is tantamount to theft or fraud. It is the state system of coercive public health care that is unethical.
And it's not just unethical - there's a good chance it's also unconstitutional. In the Chaoulli decision of 2005, three Supreme Court justices pronounced Quebec's health insurance monopoly to be a violation of the rights to life and security of the person under the Charter, saying: "Access to a waiting list is not access to health care." Cases pending in Ontario and British Columbia courts seek similar rulings for their respective provinces.
Dr. Dockrill's service, by contrast, was entirely voluntary. She couldn't force anyone to join. Members who felt they weren't getting value for money simply need not have renewed.
A voluntary transaction between consenting adults, with no harm to third parties and a high probability of significant benefits to those involved - how can that be unethical? Forbidding people to use their own hard-earned resources to optimize their family's health is what's unethical.
Of course, in the topsyturvy moral code of socialists, anything that might produce inequality is abhorrent. By their logic, we should shut down all private schools - after all, customers are paying twice - and permit only hamburger to be sold until filet mignon is affordable to all.
Inexorably, the defects in socialized medicine become obvious. Contrary to official Canadian mythology, our health-care system is far from the best in the world. Among 28 OECD countries, we are the sixth-highest spender relative to GDP. However, we rank 20th out of 22 in the ratio of doctors to population, and 17th in the availability of CT scanners and MRI machines.
Yet we are the only OECD country to ban private medical insurance, and one of only four countries that does not require patients to contribute something towards the cost of using a public hospital, a general practitioner or a specialist. Are those other 24 OECD countries all behaving unethically?
Perhaps when Canada finally realizes the folly of demonizing innovative physicians like Dr. Dockrill, the 12,000-plus Canadian-educated doctors who have taken refuge from our decrepit system in foreign countries will feel more inclined to return.
- Karen Selick is the litigation direcor for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which is sponsoring a court challenge against Ontario's health-care laws."
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The above Orwellian health debacle is the work of Liberals such as MPP Jim 'I hate doctors' Bradley; this is Bradley's kind of state fascism. Bradley was there when Liberal premier David Peterson was destroying health care in Ontario in the early 1980's (see here, pg.33). Jim Bradley doesn't believe in the Chaoulli decision! Bradley's a despot who believes that a voluntary transaction between an MD and a patient IS unethical - and that a jackbooted 'liberal/left' HAS a moral right to intervene.

33 C. difficile patients were killed in Niagara in the summer of 2011, yet secretive Liberal Jim Bradley didn't once say anything about this horror which happened in his own local Liberal-monopoly hospitals. Bradley also neglected to link Niagara's C. diff deaths in 2011, to the false assurances which Bradley's own Liberals made in 2008 that Ontario's hospitals were safe.

It's Liberal health-monopolist-pushing scum such as MPP Jim Bradley who are truly "disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional". It's amazing how the left can always vilify another scapegoat, launch another sanctimonious witch-hunt, yet never have to account for the blowback of their own despotic policies.
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The monopolistic state-socialist-single-payer healthcare model charade continued to be pursued by the likes of Danielle Martin, as seen in this nice "fake news" story appearing on Bell media's CTV network , Jan. 11, 2017).
Of course, the reason Martin was suddenly "made into news" again in January 2017, is because the Canadian leftist media are gearing up to revive their anti-US agit-prop groundwork, after 8 years of shameless Obama-fawning, Now that Hillary and Obama's legacies were soundly rejected and demolished in the US election, and with Trump about to become U.S. President, the majority of Canada's media will have to revise their narratives. It's back to the old template, back to America-bashing, back to their usual anti American narratives to demonize the U.S. This timing is meant to coincide with the moves in the States to dismantle that horrible Democrat failed abortion known as Obamacare. Canadian lefties loved Obamacare, so the reason for this story appearing now {....ah, yes - look; Canada GOOD! America BAAAAD..!}is self explanatory.
Canadian Liberals had used that Anti-American narrative as their touchstone for years, Jim Bradley and McGuinty and the Chretien gang used that meme on a daily basis
But what about Dr. Dockrill? Take a look at the fascistic, evil results stemming from the kind of state-socialist 'ethics' beloved by Danielle Martin.
Martin's media sycophants often refer to her espousal of a construct called 'universal' healthcare, but which in reality is no-choice state-run monopolist, single-payer healthcare, They hide behind the true definition and real nature of the system for which they shill, and work diligently to confuse the issue, claiming that only their kind of "universality"should exist - ie, single-payer monopolist health-care fascism.
Furthermore, in order to deflect from Canada's monopolist healthcare failures, Canadian lefties will predictably trot out their usual fear-mongering conflation that the only possible alternative to Canada's current single-payer system, is the American system! (...which is the cue for Canadian media to immediately flame knee-jerk hatred towards the Americans) It's a slick bit of deception, fear, and false-comparison, but this tactic has worked well to cover up for the deficiencies in Canada's single-payer heal monopoly.
I think it is disgusting how Danielle Martin's kind of political 'ethics' helped wipe Dr. Dockrill's practice "off the map". She even traveled to the States to smugly shill for Obamacare, as some kind of hero of Canada's demonic no-choice health-socialism.
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Niagara Falls misspells new Crysler Ave. street sign

How long do you think it will take for Niagara Falls, Ontario mayor Jim Diodati to realize his own city has misspelled Crysler Ave.? It's bad enough that Diodati's Liberal buddy Kim Craitor thinks Canada has 12 provinces, does Diodati even know who 'Monty' Crysler was?!
C'mon, there, Jimmy: stop BS-ing us with your global warming fear, your pro-monopolist, anti-NHS/pro-Liberal LHIN disinformation, and try to pay attention to simple municipal items, like knowing the proper names of the streets which  are located four blocks from your city hall office.

above: looking at the new streetsigns which were installed this week along Queen St. in Niagara Falls, Ont.; this one is crossing Queen St. at Crysler Ave. The sign is misspelled as "Chrysler Ave."

above: during the Blizzard of 1977; a photo of Queen St., looking east towards Crysler Ave. from St.Lawrence Ave. At the far right is a corner of the marquee of the former Seneca movie theatre. Photo from the Niagara Falls Library.

above: Feb.2, 2010 - same view; Crysler Ave. crosses where the red building (the old F.C. Burroughes Furniture store) is seen at the center-right.

above: Mar.5, 2010 - same view; Queen St, underwent a lot of re-construction in 2010 - in this photo, Queen St. is seen closed east of Crysler Ave. while work crews dig and install new sewers.

above: Jul.30, 2010 - same view, as hundreds of motorcycles line both sides of Queen St.

above: Sept.3, 2011 - same view - new streetsigns are seen crossing over Queen St. into the distance. The misspelled "Chrysler Ave." sign is the one closest to the camera.
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below: May 4, 2010 - looking west along Queen St. from Crysler Ave.; the street is closed due to the construction seen in the distance, at Queen and St.Lawrence. Note the current concrete lampposts.

above: Aug.31, 2011 - at the same corner of Crysler Ave. and Queen St.; the new streetsign is being craned into place on new steel posts. The nameplate is not on yet.
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below: Mar.1, 2011 - looking west along Queen St., standing just east of Erie Ave. Note that two of these signs are seen installed along the street; the closest one is at Erie Ave., the other one further back at Ontario Ave. These signs were put up, and then taken down several weeks later. It looks as if at first these signs were installed by inserting the steel ends of the arch onto regular cement streetposts; afterwards, these signs were installed onto steel posts, which were bolted to new concrete bases. (see here for earlier views of same corner)

above: July 21, 2011 - looking at Queen St. and Ontario Ave., the first sign which had been here previously has now been removed; at the left and right near the sidewalks can be seen the excavations for the new concrete pads.

below: July 21, 2011, at the NW corner of Queen St.and St.Clair Ave. - the depth of the concrete footings for the new signposts can be seen here, where only a worker's head is visible while he's standing inside the hole. The building at the back was the old Wallace's Dry Goods store.

above: Aug.23, 2011 -  here's the newer replacement sign which crosses Queen St. at Erie Ave.; now it is attached to steel posts instead of to the previous concrete lamp-posts. The building at the right is the former Bank of Hamilton. Note the corner convenience store, which had been on the ground floor of the former bank, has recently closed.

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Deb Matthews: it's not about the 'confidence in the NHS' as you claim; it's about what YOUR Liberals have done to the NHS

The St.Catharines Standard's Jeff Bolichowsky wrote a Sept.2, 2011 piece, stating that "Ontario is the only province where an ombudsman does not have a mandate to oversee hospitals".

However, this intrepid Standard reporter, naturally, DID NOT bother to ask the local Liberal MPP in his own city, Jim Bradley, why this might be! Was reporter Bolichowsky warned by his editors not to mention or involve Liberal Jim Bradley in any possibly-embarrassing policy questions?!

Wow: after all the secrecy and lies and patient-deaths surrounding McGuinty's Liberal healthcare monopoly, is it any wonder that McGuinty's Liberals DID NOT want the ombudsman nosing around their health monopoly?

Deb Matthews is hypocritical beyond belief when she crows piously that she's "sad when I see people playing politics with something as important as health care"! What a dump-load of crap that is, spewed by the Liberals for whom health-care [specifically, ideologically-motivated monopolist health-care] IS NOTHING BUT POLITICAL!!

Come on, Deb -  your Liberal contrition is so phony, you should be embarrassed.This is NOT about the 'confidence in the hospital', as Deb Matthews claims, and wants us to believe: IT'S ABOUT WHAT HER MONOPOLIST LIBERALS HAVE DONE TO THE NHS !!

What glib, deceptive Grit greaseballs these McGuintyites are! This is from the same sanctimonious Liberals who created the LHIN's, and who forced the NHS to create the cost-cutting Niagara HIP!!

These are the same Liberals who under scummy Smitherman  ran away and hid from having any public inquiry into their last killer C. difficile outbreak in 2008!!

Why didn't reporter Bolichowsly ask Niagara's local Liberal hacks Bradley and Kim Craitor why - after eight years of Liberal majority rule - the ombudsman STILL doesn't have access to hospitals?!!

How many Ontario patients would have been spared death in McGuinty's health-care horror hospitals if the ombudsman had been allowed independent access to scrutinize what McGuinty's monopolists were doing?

Waazzat, you say: but Deb Matthews did allow the ombudsman into the NHS!! She is gloriously transparent!!

Sorry: this last-minute pre-election Supervisor/ombudsman game we see unfolding in Niagara was a planned one-off affair; this is in no way the same as the ombudsman having full investigatory access to any Ontario hospital, anytime, without Liberal-government-pre-approval.

McGuinty's secretive Liberals refuse to allow that kind of independent scrutiny of their failing ideological single-payer health monopoly.

Bolichowsky also failed to mention that it's not just activities within the hospitals which McGuinty, Bradley, and Craitor want to keep the lid on, but the ENTIRE 'MUSH' SECTOR (Municipalities, Universities, School boards, Hospitals) is a no-go zone for ombudsman scrutiny; McGuinty's secretive Liberals have ensured that Ontario has the most limited ombudsman access to these sectors in all of Canada.

But why would the self-appointed wrong-righters at theSt.Catharines Standard bother to ask their pride'n'joy JimmyBoy about such trivial matters?!
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Craitor and Bradley's Liberals continue their health-care cuts

Dr. Mark Wagner Salem wrote in "McGuinty has mismanaged our treasured health-care system" (Stratford Beacon Herald, Aug.31, 2011):

"This letter is being submitted as a result of reading Ian MacDonald's Aug. 19 column entitled Fundamental Signs Point to Hudak Win (Aug. 19).

As ordinary citizens we need to exercise extreme caution when considering whether or not to trust Dalton McGuinty with four more years of Ontario health care. According to the Conference Board of Canada (CBOC) the McGuinty government plans to limit health-care spending increases to 3% per year for the next five years, which is less than half of the 6.5% average that has occurred over the past 15 years. A noble goal, but one that, according to the CBOC, lacks a clear strategic plan to achieve it.
Aside from this absence of a clearly articulated agenda, which in itself raises fears of a lack of preparedness, my trepidation is further fuelled by the $1 billion wasted in the eHealth debacle, an event that becomes even more annoying, coming on the heels of the $650 million already lost on the previous administrative disaster known as the Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) that was initiated in 2003 (Dalton's first year as premier) and abandoned in 2008. As it turns out, Deloitte & Touche LLP cited the same deficiency in the SSHA as the CBOC does with the current health-care budget, namely the lack of strategic direction. This begs the question of whether or not Mr. McGuinty is learning from the mistakes of the past or if we are simply doomed to see them repeated. Frankly, the thought of actually letting him continue to preside over $47 billion in health-care spending is at best worrisome.
Dalton McGuinty has had plenty of time to prove himself. Giving him a third mandate would also give him another opportunity to mismanage our treasured health-care system and our province. I believe we have too much to lose."
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Yes: you read that correctly: McGuinty's Liberals ARE CUTTING HEALTH-CARE SPENDING.

Go ahead: read that again if you need to, take your time... absorb it; remember that an election is underway, and that we should learn from our past mistakes and not allow McGuinty's Lying Liberals another shot at running Ontario into the ground.

Go ahead: ask Liberal health-care monopolists Kim Craitor or Jim Bradley about their health-care cutting... all you'll get from these disgusting Grit gasholes are deceptive diversions about "harris"!

The spending-increase cuts which Wagner points to in 2011, are directly linked back to the cuts which Liberal Greg Sorbara announced on May 18, 2004, when he had introduced McGuinty's hated Health Tax. Sorbara vowed that McGuinty's Liberals were going to STOP Harris' high health care spending [yes... once again: you read that correctly...] which Sorbara HIMSELF said was running at an 8% increase annually!! Sorbara planned to stop that, and  to cut health care funding - which in Niagara led to George Smitherman forcing his cost-cutting HIP onto the NHS.

Go ahead: ask Jimmy'N'Kimmy about that!!

We see now that the Liberals were cutting health care from the moment they were elected - and we see that the Liberals out and out lied - and still lie - by blaming Harris.
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