Daily Archives: 3/2/2007
Ontario Ombudsman Moves On Children Feud
| 3/2/2007 | Posted by Patti under Afghanistan, Canadian Politics |
The Globe & Mail yesterday reported that a tug of war was taking place between provincial and federal officials over the mental health care of children of our soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
The military provides care for the serving soldier but their families are not within their mandate. The province has refused to pay for mental health care for he children claiming “It’s a direct consequence of federal government initiatives,” stated Mary Anne Chambers, Ontario’s Minister of Children and Youth ervices
WHAT!!!? Has this woman got her head up her ass?
Notwithstanding that delivery of health services is the responsibility of the province for which Canadian soldiers pay the health tax like every other resident of this province this woman does realize that she’s alking about the children of men and woman who are serving THIS country?
OK OK .. calm down Patti..
Today the Globe is reporting that the Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin has launched a probe into the issue. Thank GOD!
Although I have no doubt in my mind that if the military is not providing health care for the families of soldiers then the province is responsible, I also believe that the military needs to take a hard look at this.
Just as soldiers often need specialized care for physical and mental wounds as the result of serving in a combat zone, their families struggle with a psychological impact that the general population doesn’t. It would be prudent for the DND aka the federal government to work in partnership with the provinces to establish mental health programs which benefit the families as well as the soldier.
Those programs would not happen overnight and in the interim not only does the province have a responsibility to deliver mental health services to the children of this province, all of the children. The province really shouldn’t have an issue with supporting our troops families as part of supporting our troops.
PM’s Lies Riles Liberals and I’d Hope, Canadians
| 3/2/2007 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics, Ethics, Harper |
Fresh from his smears at Liberal MP Navdeep Bains over his father-in-law, the boy Harper was emboldened yesterday in his slurs at two Montreal area women MPs. The slurs arose during debate over a move by the government to having political appointees on the panel that makes up the Immigrant and Refugee Board. A move that prompted the resignations of several members of the board this week.
The Liberal government moved away from political appointees during their time in office because of the patronage inherent in the process.
Harper rose in the commons to claim “We are putting in place a new selection system so we do not have what we had before — like the member for Westmount-Ville-Marie (Lucienne Robillard) appointing her former husband as a member of the board, like the husband of the member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Lachine (Marlene Jennings) as a member of the board,” He further stated “That is the mess we are cleaning up. That is the Liberal culture of entitlement and we are getting rid of it.”
Were either accusation true they would be serious ethics breaches. Neither accusation was even remotely true as Robillard’s ex-husband was appointed by Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1990 and Jennings husband was on the board in 1996 which was before Jennings was even elected to Parliament.
Harper and his band of bullies have been engaged in smears through fiction with just enough truth attached to make the unaware believe them, but this round, this is blatant lying. This is what wants to have a majority government? Are Canadians really crazy enough to elect the likes of this and give him a majority?
Over at the Woostock Ontario Independent News he comments:
Harper when in need, relies on bullshit fear and propaganda to enforce his view. He fits well into the
historical perspective of other failed leaders that Canada was built on fear, lies and coercion backed up ith violence.
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Say no to bullying…say no to Harpers’ mindless CONservatives.
enough said.
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