Guest Blogging
This is from my on-line blogging partner and regular Tuesday morning guest Rob -- you can check out more of his posts at out site nmpcanada.blogspot.com.
The Conservative government is preparing for a national debate on health care finance and reform. Which I imagine is code for so long medicare, welcome to Canada big US health insurance companies.
In case there is any doubt as to where our beloved Prime Minister good old Steven Harper stands on the issue, he was President of the National Citizens Coalition from 1998 to 2002. What is the National Citizens Coalition? According to Wikipedia.
The National Citizens Coalition is a Canadian conservative lobby group. It was founded by Colin M. Brown in 1967 to oppose the concept of a national health care system. It supports privatization, tax cuts, and government spending cuts and opposes laws that limit spending by non-party organizations during election campaigns. It has been heavily involved in advertising, political campaigns and legal challenges in support of its goals of "more freedom with less government."
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A National Citizens Coalition billboard in downtown Toronto in 2003. |
Last week charges were dropped against hundreds of concerned citizens arrested during the G20 meetings and now one infamous police officer, "Officer Bubbles" is suing YouTube for over a million dollars. I seems he doesn't take kindly to some cartoons posted on the site that poked fun at his disposition. The cartoons were taken down but the incident that inspired them is still up.(he obviously has no sense of humour.)
Watch the original video that stirred up so much resentment below:
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