Few Canadians know about Health Reforms in the United States

Few Canadians understand the Obama-care plan of health insurance. For many they believe its about time that Americans got the same kind of health care as Canadians, despite our own broken system.

What many Canadians don't know is that the office of the President has used bribes, threats, and in some cases apparently blackmail in order to get his socialized health insurance plan passed.

so now it is in the final stages of becoming law, but more and more Americans are upset with how this law is coming into the final stages.

We in Canada need to remember that our kind of socialism may not work in the United States. We need to also remember that Americans hold high their freedoms, more so than we do.

Americans don't like to see their basic freedoms to be walked on and ignored. We in Canada don't seem to care as long as (what has been perceived) we have a beer in one hand, money in our pockets, and some form of domestic life to satisfy our sex drive.

As Americans have watched their constitution being trampled upon by this socialist white house administration, they have become angered. Yes they agree that their health care system needs to be reformed. They are not happy that this socialised health care is being rammed down their throats. They expect some form of honesty and respect of the constitution, not like us who expect our politicians to lie, know that they're corrupt when they've been to parliament. They also expect their elected representative to represent their views and wishes, not like us who elect someone to represent a particular party to us.

The Obama-care will see the collapse of health insurance companies, an increase in their taxes for five years before Obama-care actually takes effect (2015). So there is good reason why many Americans are angry, and we will see the result of that anger come the elections of their representatives beginning next year when one third of the Congress and the Senate are up for re-elections.

It will be an interesting year for sure - especially since this Obama-care law apparently has a clause in it stating that it can never be changed or repealed - something that is totally unconstitutional and perhaps even against American law.

2010 will be interesting for sure.

Environmental Activists don't appear to have a clue

Environmental activists are in blame game mode right now. They are blaming industry, chamber of commerce groups, politicians (conservatives only), oil companies and the list goes on and on.

They are blaming everyone for the fantastic failure of the Copenhagen conference on climate change. What they wanted was a binding agreement that would see the sovereignty of signature countries being dissolved.

These activists are socialists and communists who's main agenda is to bring global socialism to all countries where people are told what to do, when to do it and how.

Their agenda is to enslave the people of the world into some sort of collective where by there is control over movement, control of speech, association etc.

This is the agenda of the environmental movement, plus add into the formula the desire to control the populations of the world.

They want everyone to follow the same drum, and when the politicians realized what they would be loosing by signing onto this, yet another flawed agreement, they got upset. When the science is being questioned, and the weather patterns don't match the controlled computer projections, these activists have nothing to stand on. That is un-nerving to many as they are being presented as the charlatans that they are.

Al Gore became richer through his program that has been designed to get him rich. There is no science that follows Mr. Gore. He is not a scientist but rather an opportunist that sees a good way to make more money without working for it. He's a politician and an activist out for his pocket book and nothing more.

The comments that came out of the Copenhagen conference - announcing that the sky is going to fall, just showed how desperate these people were and are to make themselves money and instill world socialism. Nothing more - nothing less.

Lorrie Goldstein has it right - Enviro Nuts like Avaaz are wrong

Congratulations to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister Jim Prentice for receiving both the "Colossal Fossil" award and the most "Fossil of the Day" awards from the enviro nuts at the now-concluded Copenhagen climate summit.

This means Harper and Prentice remembered their duty in Copenhagen was to represent Canadian taxpayers, not radicals who would happily destroy our economy, primarily for ideological reasons.

As Harper and Prentice noted, Canada achieved some success in Copenhagen.

The conference formally recognized that the successor agreement to the Kyoto accord, which expires at the end of 2012, must have the active participation of all 192 countries in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, not just the 37 industrialized nations, including Canada, targeted for emission cuts under Kyoto.

Kyoto, requiring Canada to reduce its emissions by an average of 6% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012, while demanding absolutely no cuts from more than 150 other countries, including the world's two biggest GHG emitters -- China and the U.S. -- is an absurd treaty.
Even more absurd was the propaganda by environmental radicals in Copenhagen, tagging Canada as the great, carbon-spewing ogre of climate change.

Get real

In reality, China, now the world's biggest GHG emitter, doesn't have to lower its emissions by one molecule under Kyoto, because it's classified (bizarrely) as a developing nation in the treaty, in the same league as the poorest countries in Africa, even though China now owns almost $1 trillion of U.S. government debt and its economy is booming.

The U.S., the world's second-biggest GHG emitter, never ratified Kyoto, dating back to the Clinton-Gore administration, which means the treaty doesn't apply to it.

Together, China and the U.S. account for 40% of global GHG emissions.
Canada accounts for 2%. Alberta's oilsands, the favourite scapegoat of the enviro nuts, currently account for less than one-tenth of 1%.

As The Christian Science Monitor reported in a major analysis in December, 2004, emissions from nearly 850 new coal-fired electricity generating stations planned by just China, the U.S. and India -- also exempt from any emission cuts under Kyoto -- will, by 2012, "pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce."
In other words, Canada could shut down all of its industry tomorrow and it wouldn't make any difference to the planet, not until the U.S., China, India and many other nations exempt from emission cuts under Kyoto, wean themselves off coal as a major power source.

The one valid criticism of Canada is that we ratified Kyoto and then walked away from fulfilling it.

But that's because the decision by former prime minister Jean Chretien and his then Liberal majority government to ratify Kyoto -- which was especially punitive to a big, cold, northern, sparsely-populated, energy-producing and exporting country such as Canada -- was grossly irresponsible.

Sorry mess

The fact Chretien, having ratified the treaty, did nothing to implement it, meant that by the time Harper inherited the whole sorry mess in 2006, Canada was so far above its Kyoto target (by about 30%) that we couldn't have complied even if Harper had wanted to (fortunately, he didn't), without destroying our economy.

Prior to Copenhagen, I wrote Canadians should cheer every time Canada "won" a fossil award in Copenhagen.

Considering how well they did, Harper and Prentice deserve a gold medal.

lorrie.goldstein@sunmedia.ca

Compromise and Bribery gets the job done

Another hurtle has been jumped and another hoop has been cleared. Canadians don't understand the total process of American law making, but from what I understand now that the Senate and the Congress have both passed the Obama health insurance bill, it still has to go to House Committees.

So here's the program as it was explained to me. Congress passed their version of the Obama medicare plan. The Senate has passed their version of the Obama medicare plan. Now each bill goes before committee hearings and then they are meshed together into a final bill that both houses pass. (sort of confusing)

Apparently there are compromises and bribes implemented in the bills from each house that needs to be worked out. Certain states get special recognition, money or what ever.

Once this is all sorted out and a final bill is created, it then goes before the president to be signed into law. No wonder it takes a long time for something to pass into law and when it is finished it doesn't look like the original bill.

There have been reports that Democrats who were not going to pass the health bill for fear of not being re-elected were given bribes to pass this bill if they don't get re-elected. We think there is corruption in the Canadian system? According to information on the American system it is a normal process to buy, bride, and do favours just to get bills passed.

If Americans are viewing the Canadian system as the model they wish to follow, they need to think again. The Canadian health care is broken and nearly un-fixable. Pouring money into the system isn't working and no one has the courage to revamp the system.

The American health care will cost trillions and when this bill is finally passed, Americans still will not have health care until around 2015, well after Obama has been voted out of office and won't be around when the system blows up with its first crisis.

Oh yes - once this bill is passed, Americans will be paying taxes to cover the costs starting immediately. Interesting that for five years Americans will be paying taxes on a system that no one can take advantage of for five years.

Dictatorship is a Privilege of the PM Office - always has been.

By virtual design of the Constitution Act 1983, the Prime Minister's Office is all powerful - never all knowing - but all powerful.

The Constitution Act of 1983 gives the Prime Minister and the Cabinet total power and authority in all things - the Prime Minister and the Cabinet are the government of Canada, not Parliament. Surprised? We should be.

So when we say the Prime Minister is acting like a dictator, he has that privilege in accordance with the constitution.

Chretien and Trudeau did the same thing. They centralized their power in the Prime Minister's Office which also includes the Cabinet. In fact Chretien went further. He had all meetings included caucus meetings stamped as "top secret" and were in fact kept secret from the media and other prying eyes.

So it didn't surprise me when a reported for the Toronto Star (amazing) has come out and labeled Prime Minister Harper as a dictator. In his flimsy article he tries to demonstrate that the Prime Minister's Office is centralizing all power, stifling reports, and the list goes on. He forgets that Trudeau and Chretien did the same thing. So there is really nothing new here in this Toronto Star report.

What makes the report boring is that it opens the door for everyone liberal and Harper hater to come out swinging. We need to remember that liberal socialists despise anything coming from the right of the political spectrum regardless of what it is. So when a politically left wing paper like the Toronto Star provides the opportunity, the only result can be is to go Harper bashing - which is exactly what happened.

The Constitution Act of 1983 specifically states that the government of Canada is made up of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet and that they have the sole power and responsibility to run the country as they see fit. This also means that the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can decide what is a nationally emergence and they alone can decide as to how long this emergency can last. Not Parliament, not the Governor General, not the Senate - only the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.

Everyone should read the Constitution Act of 1983, as well as the British North America Act of 1867. Add in also the Westminster Act (?) and the Criminal Code of Canada - these make up our total constitution and provide some very interesting reading. We are not a free as we think we are.