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Archive for September 2nd, 2008

Dalton McGuinty plans to ask the federal party leaders for fairness for Ontario:

…After meeting with students at a Pickering high school today, McGuinty said he will ask each federal party leader how they would deal with Ontario’s claims that it is not treated fairly by the federal government…

Too bad Dalton doesn’t worry about fair and equal treatment of Ontario citizens himself.

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Wednesday Update : Waterloo Region has big problems with long wait times for specialists. Here is the latest crisis developing - Region loses two dermatologists (Record). Where is Dalton McGuinty on this file? Why is he ignoring the health of Waterloo Region citizens?

…Area dermatologists see a mix of medical and cosmetic cases. But Papp said they could see more medical cases if the province provides more funding.

Money to introduce electronic health records would boost efficiency, he said. And hiring nurse practitioners or other trained practitioners to help monitor less serious cases would free up specialists to care for complex ones, he said.

Two years ago, Papp asked the province for funding for a nurse practitioner but was told none was available.

He added that there have been only minor increases to fee-for-service payments for dermatologists.

"Basically, we are getting paid the same as we did in 1986 and the costs are much, much higher."

Dalton McGuinty should stop pandering to unions and start funding the health sector properly. Where is our health tax going???

Regarding McGuinty’s electioneering style, check this out: Obama goes to McGuinty U. (Sun)

Stephane Dion in Saskatchewan (H/T National Newswatch):

"What the Conservative government has done to this economy especially is very wrong. Each time the Conservatives are in power they destroy what we Liberals have built," Dion told reporters in Regina. "We need to be back for Canadians, and we need to convince them about that. It will be a fight, hour after hour, day after day and I will have a great team to win it."

Translation: You stupid, moronic Canadians don’t realize that we are your only hope. But don’t worry. We will beat you over the head until you finally get it.

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Update : According to Roger Smith on MDL, changes are being planned to the Green Shift.

Don Martin - Step one for Dion is to get his own MPs onside - Post.

FYI, 570’s Jeff Allan will be discussing the upcoming election at 10 a.m.  He also just announced by way of promo that he will be interviewing CTV’s Mike Duffy.

You can listen online here. (Link top right)

I hope to be addressing this topic later this morning. Comments welcome anytime.

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BTW, this is a heads-up to the Duffinator himself. Looks like you’re losing some of your Liberal fans. ‘Impolitical’ is questioning your objectivity here and Liblogger Red Tory has these kind words:

…No, instead, we got Mike Duffy, CTV’s morbidly obese cut-up, back from two months of basting his corpulent pile of flab in the sun, pronouncing that Dion, just as the Tories expected, had stupidly fallen into their oh-so-clever trap and that now Harper “will be able to say on the campaign trail that he tried to work with the opposition…”

Nice.

Makes Garth’s weaselette comment seem rather tame by comparison.

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10:30 am update: Well, not a whole lot new from that segment, except to remind you that MDL returns to CTV newsnet tonight at 5 pm. However, Duff and many other pundits have pointed to the recent Strategic Counsel poll results as being significant - especially on the question of whether or not the government is going in the right direction:

…In addition, the latest poll suggests 49 per cent of Canadians feel Canada is on the right track, while only 34 per cent feel the country is on the wrong track…

It has been emphasized that this is in sharp contrast to the mood in the U.S. that seems more intent on change.

More bad news for Stephane Dion.

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Today’s Star poll: Who do you think is the most likeable federal party leader?

This one should be interesting to watch.