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letters to the editor
Reader tired of "political nonsense and parties remarks"
To the Editor:
I am getting a little tired of the
nonsense I keep reading regard-
ing the three parties electioneer-
ing remarks. So I have come up
with some wishes:
I wish leaders would learn
from the old scout promise,
which starts off with "I promise
that I will do my best to..." then
we might have more faith in our
politicians.
For instance Mulcair prom-
ises, if elected to government, to
bring in 10,000 refugees by the
end of the year. However, he
may well find that there are not
enough bureaucrats or there are
some logistical problems to
make this unrealistic or imprac-
tical. Similarly, any party's
promise to balance the budget
by year... may prove to be
impossible or unwise due to
changing economic conditions.
I wish that we end up with a
coalition government that lis-
tens to other points of view and
tries to come up with a consen-
sus, it seems our prime minis-
ters often end up more as dicta-
tors than true leaders and the
best we can hope for is to elect a
party with a leader who is a
benevolent dictator.
I wish the parties would not
do attack ads especially against
individuals.
Instead a comment such as, "I
believe the parties plan to ...
is very misguided."
The Liberals and NDP may
end up having to work together
to form a government and there-
fore I wish they were more dip-
lomatic during the election
campaign.
I thought it was a bit of tragi-
comedy when Christian Paradis
reportedly said, "The Syrian con-
flict is a tragedy of huge
A call for stronger federal health care leadership
It is unfortunate that our gov-
ernment has abandoned its
leadership role when it comes to
Canada's public Medicare
system.
Said federal NDP Health Critic
Libby Davies: "The federal gov-
ernment must work with the prov-
inces to create health care reforms
that ensure that Canadians con-
tinue to receive quality health
care, and that this standard of care
is guaranteed across the country.
Canadians deserve equal access
to affordable medications, team -
based primary care clinics with
doctors, nurses and allied health
professionals; care across their
lifespan; and preventative health
education and resources:'
Our Prime Minister and the
Federal Health Minister should
call for a First Ministers Meet-
ings with all the provincial and
territorial Premiers and Health
Ministers in negotiating a new
National Health Accord and
expand and strengthen the Can-
ada Health Act by implementing
National Standards, especially
for home care, pharmacare and
The Local Exeter-Seaforth
Ringette Association will be host-
ing their first AA team this season.
The base of this U19 team have
had 3 successful Seasons at the `'
level Winning three Provincial
Championships U14A in 2010-11,
U16A in 2012-13 and U19A 2014-
15 is making the Step up to AA'
this season. They will Host teams
from Waterloo, Guelph,
medical or assistive devices
(including ostomy and diabetic
supplies).
Unfortunately, not once has
Prime Minister Harper ever called
for a National First Ministers
Health Conference during his
whole term in office (2006 to 2015).
In his March 28, 2014 email
message, Federal Opposition
Leader Thomas Mulcair states:
"New Democrats are urging
the Harper government to work
out a deal to ensure that every
Canadian has access to physician
and hospital care when they
need it—regardless of the where
they live, their economic or social
status. This was the vision of
Tommy Douglas who believed
that "health services ought not to
have a price -tag on them, and
that people should be able to get
whatever health services they
required irrespective of their
individual capacity to pay."
We know that there is an
important leadership role for the
federal government in health
care delivery—the federal gov-
ernment should be providing a
Mississauga, Cambridge, London,
Richmond Hill and Whitby on
their home ice in Seaforth on Sun-
day Afternoons. The U19AA team
will travel to 4 tournaments to
eam their Provincial ranking and
then play at U19AA Ontario Pro-
vincial Championship March
10th -13th in Waterloo. Top teams
at Provincials will earn a spot in
the National Ringette Champion -
stable funding formula for the
Canada Health Transfer, ensur-
ing that all provinces and territo-
ries can provide a high standard
of care and honour the Canada
Health Act.
But, instead of providing lead-
ership and properly funding our
health care system, the Conserva-
tives are slowly strangling it.
They're changing the way they
divide federal health transfers,
leaving some provinces worse off.
They unilaterally imposed 36 bil-
lion dollars in cuts to health care
funding and continue to refuse to
negotiate with the provinces and
territories on the health accords.
The result of all these Conserv-
ative cuts and inaction? Canadi-
ans will face a diminished health
care system: even longer wait
times, unequal standards of care
across provinces and territories,
reduced front-line services, con-
tinued inflation in drug costs and
reduced access to home care and
long-term care."
We need to stress the impor-
tance of our provincial political
leaders, especially the Premier
ship held in London, Ont.
The team launched into their
season Saturday losing 7-2 to the
United AAA Select team in
Guelph. The Locals played a
strong and physical first half
notching 2 goals from Maddie
Cormier with Christine Leach
assisting on one, and went into
half time behind 3-2. A combina-
tion of penalties and a short
magnitude, none of us can stand
idle when we know the horrors
that effect so many civilians"
What was our government doing
in the past year until they realized
that admitting refugees was what
the general public wanted?
It appears that their major
policy was to drop bombs on
Syrians hoping they killed more
combatants than civilians and
doing very little in humanitarian
aid or expediting refugee
claimants.
Patrick Capper
Clinton
and the Minister of Health and
Community Services to join their
provincial and territorial Counter-
parts from Canada's nine other
provinces and other territories to
call on the Prime Minister, the
federal Health Minister and the
current/next federal government
to come to the negotiating table
and work out a new National
Health Accord; to reintroduce the
national pharmaceutical strategy
and a national pharmacare
program.
The federal government needs
to reverse it's unilateral decision
to cut $36 Billion from the fed-
eral health transfers to the prov-
inces and territories.
Such a huge cut will restrict or
prevent provinces to implement
improvements in our overall
healthcare system; to build new
healthcare infrastructure and lower
"wait -time s" to see specialists, such
as psychiatrists, publicly funded
psychologists, neuropsychiatrists
and other Health Providers.
Edward Sawdon
St. Johns, Nlfd.
bench took it's toll, but the game
was a great way to see the poten-
tial of the team. The team will
start (CORL)Central Ontario
Ringette League play on Sept 26th
in Waterloo, and look forward to
having to step up their game.
Michele Hodgert
Exeter-Seaforth U19AA
Assist Coach 519-872-6750
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