Our friends on the right like to talk about the healthcare monopoly when they refer to medicare in Canada. Well here is an example of how privatized health care is not the alternative.
CHR renews contract with private clinic
The Health Resource Centre is so far the only private facility in southern Alberta licensed to do overnight surgeries, and therefore faces no competition.
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Don't Count On That GST Cut Yet
While the Conservatives plan to roll back the tax cuts the Liberals introduced before the election, they do not plan to, and cannot, implement the GST cut probably until 2007. So while you and I will get our tax cut for 2005 we may face higher taxes in 2006 without a GST cut until a year after that.
Don't expect to get those promised tax cuts right away
But there's a problem with lowering the GST rate right away.The first income tax reductions announced by the Liberals have already passed into law. The Canada Revenue Agency has sent out millions of tax forms, incorporating the changes for the 2005 tax year."Can Harper change the GST rate midway through 2006?" Finn Poschmann, associate research director for the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto, asks. "It's unlikely. He may propose looking at it in 2007 instead."The delay makes sense. With the Liberals' income tax measures in place for the first year, the Conservatives may not have the revenue needed to pay for their GST promise.
Which is why the Harper government has been deliberately vague on all of its economic promises, Flaherty promises federal budget after House resumes, except of course the July 1st start for their baby bonus, which is a sop to distract us from the fact they are going to be taxing us in order to pay for their GST cut.
For a good article on how the Tax Cut Tories will become the Tax Canadians "to pay for our promises " Tories see this progressive bloggers take on it: Hey Harper, get your hands out of my pocket!
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Don't expect to get those promised tax cuts right away
But there's a problem with lowering the GST rate right away.The first income tax reductions announced by the Liberals have already passed into law. The Canada Revenue Agency has sent out millions of tax forms, incorporating the changes for the 2005 tax year."Can Harper change the GST rate midway through 2006?" Finn Poschmann, associate research director for the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto, asks. "It's unlikely. He may propose looking at it in 2007 instead."The delay makes sense. With the Liberals' income tax measures in place for the first year, the Conservatives may not have the revenue needed to pay for their GST promise.
Which is why the Harper government has been deliberately vague on all of its economic promises, Flaherty promises federal budget after House resumes, except of course the July 1st start for their baby bonus, which is a sop to distract us from the fact they are going to be taxing us in order to pay for their GST cut.
For a good article on how the Tax Cut Tories will become the Tax Canadians "to pay for our promises " Tories see this progressive bloggers take on it: Hey Harper, get your hands out of my pocket!
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State Controlled Day Care
William Stairs propaganda oberfuerher for the Harper Regime in Ottawa denounced State Controled Day Care, on Don Newmans Poltics the other day. WTF is State Controled day care in Canada?
Is he refering to the fact that the Liberals gave provinces funds for their daycare portfolios, which are a hodge podge of programs across Canada. Which is why Harper can offer Quebec a special deal while telling the rest of the provinces to expect funding cuts.Harper offers Quebec 'extension' on child-care
Premiers want old child-care deals upheld
For instance Alberta has the lowest number of non-profit publicly funded daycares than any other province in Canada. We have more baba's babysitting and a huge private for profit day care industry that benefits from child tax credits.
When Oberfuerher Stairs denounces the mythical State controled daycare he must be refering to Israel, not Canada.
But he is not alone in creating mythical beasts to slay. Other Tory apologists in the blogosphere and columnists in the MSM also claim that the Liberal funding did not create any more daycare spaces. Well that also is a lie.
Day-care workers, parents eye future of federal funding
"If we don't have that money, we're going to have to look at what kind of cuts we can make, and that would jeopardize the quality of the programs for the kids we have in the program," she said.Many day-care centres have already received their share of this year's money, and have used the extra funds to boost pay and create more spaces. Now, the centres' managers are left wondering if they'll be able to continue to afford the pay raises and new programming. The money Winnipeg's Beaumont Day Care has received so far has paid for wage increases for staff and 15 new spaces for children. Director Jen Grove says she will refuse to cut back on wages, but she worries that other areas may suffer if the Tories don't honour the Liberal agreement. Vince Stycke, who has a child in day care, worries that it will be impossible to keep quality staff if the recent wage increases are rolled back. "As a parent, we just want to know that if we are leaving our children, that they are being looked after, and the people that are doing that are treating them well, are educated and engaged in their profession," he said. "I just don't know if that's possible if we cut back the pay."Across the province, the new federal money was expected to fund more than 3,000 new day-care spaces; hundreds of them are already in place.
Yep the Tories and their syncophants are practicing Herr Goebels Big Lie on the Day Care issue. So beware of Tories talking about State Controled Day Care. No such creature exists in Canada.
Now on the other hand State Funding for Day Care does exist. And the Tories day care plan is also State Funding for day care, just not direct funding to public non profit day care centres. Which last time I checked were not State controled and were classic liberal capitalist enterprizes for the public good.
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Is he refering to the fact that the Liberals gave provinces funds for their daycare portfolios, which are a hodge podge of programs across Canada. Which is why Harper can offer Quebec a special deal while telling the rest of the provinces to expect funding cuts.Harper offers Quebec 'extension' on child-care
Premiers want old child-care deals upheld
For instance Alberta has the lowest number of non-profit publicly funded daycares than any other province in Canada. We have more baba's babysitting and a huge private for profit day care industry that benefits from child tax credits.
Heather Forsyth, Alberta's minister for children's services, said she wanted to hear details, adding she had not yet heard from Harper. "We need to know his plan versus our plan," said Forsyth. "We need to know when his money is kicking in and when we're losing our money so that we can start talking to Albertans and getting them ready for the changes."
When Oberfuerher Stairs denounces the mythical State controled daycare he must be refering to Israel, not Canada.
But he is not alone in creating mythical beasts to slay. Other Tory apologists in the blogosphere and columnists in the MSM also claim that the Liberal funding did not create any more daycare spaces. Well that also is a lie.
Day-care workers, parents eye future of federal funding
"If we don't have that money, we're going to have to look at what kind of cuts we can make, and that would jeopardize the quality of the programs for the kids we have in the program," she said.Many day-care centres have already received their share of this year's money, and have used the extra funds to boost pay and create more spaces. Now, the centres' managers are left wondering if they'll be able to continue to afford the pay raises and new programming. The money Winnipeg's Beaumont Day Care has received so far has paid for wage increases for staff and 15 new spaces for children. Director Jen Grove says she will refuse to cut back on wages, but she worries that other areas may suffer if the Tories don't honour the Liberal agreement. Vince Stycke, who has a child in day care, worries that it will be impossible to keep quality staff if the recent wage increases are rolled back. "As a parent, we just want to know that if we are leaving our children, that they are being looked after, and the people that are doing that are treating them well, are educated and engaged in their profession," he said. "I just don't know if that's possible if we cut back the pay."Across the province, the new federal money was expected to fund more than 3,000 new day-care spaces; hundreds of them are already in place.
Yep the Tories and their syncophants are practicing Herr Goebels Big Lie on the Day Care issue. So beware of Tories talking about State Controled Day Care. No such creature exists in Canada.
Now on the other hand State Funding for Day Care does exist. And the Tories day care plan is also State Funding for day care, just not direct funding to public non profit day care centres. Which last time I checked were not State controled and were classic liberal capitalist enterprizes for the public good.
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