2Cdo 2Cdo:
Thanos Thanos:
Are they planning as well on repeating the same Paul Martin "success" by nuking the EI system and dumping the entire responsibility for financing health care onto the provinces again? Wow, what a golden era that one was.
The same people who praised Martin for "passing the buck" to the provinces, condemned Mike Harris for doing the same thing at the provincial level.
For all the condemnation they got, and rightfully so sometimes too for their own fuck-ups and seediness, it was Harris, Ralph Klein, and the other premiers of the time that got shoved into an impossible situation when the federal health care transfers got cut to the bone by Chretien/Martin. Anyone who ever had a family member unnecessarily die in an understaffed hospital at the time were basically told that their sacrifice and pain was necessary so the federal Liberal government, who were also neck-deep at the time in Adscam, Shawinigate, and buying crappy obsolete submarines that proved lethal to Canadian sailors, could bask in the glory of their championship performance of Austerity Hero.
It'll always just be Our Guy = good, Their Guy = bad. There really is nothing at all else to it.