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Yesterday's Speech from the Throne showed the BC Lieberals delivering more of the same: more blowing of sunshine up BC's collective ass (complete with new mascot, which this page was using first), more gadget funding for education (without resolving critical issues like class sizes), and more f**king with public health care.

The Lieberals have already sent two very different messages on their plans:
1. Any new legislation will be consistent with the Canada Health Act, and
2. Gordon Campbell wants to lead a national debate about changes to the Canada Health Act

The Premier believes he can have it both ways, because he wants to have a "conversation" with British Columbians about health care. Based on our experience watching frontline care in Vancouver hospitals disintegrate under Bill 29, the P3 misadventures with Fraser Valley Hospitals, and having no idea where St. Paul's Hospital will be in four years, maybe the Liberals should be providing some straight answers before they start asking questions about the future of Medicare in British Columbia.

Based on this page's experience with Bill 11 under the Klein regime in Alberta, I can predict with ample certainty how the 'consultations' will go: Hand-picked mouthpieces from the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Fraser Institute will tell anyone (who managed to make a meeting called on 24 hours notice) that government spending on health care takes up an ever increasing proportion of the budget, and is therefore unsustainable.

These carpetbagging corporate whores will dutifully ignore that reduced spending on education, social services, the environment, etc. increases health care's share of the overall budget. The Canwest/Global media cabal will report their musings as the Gospel Truth, complete with teary-eyed accounts of people on waiting lists to manipulate their audience into demanding privatization. Anyone who points out any points of fact such as increased costs in a private system due to the need to generate profits, higher overhead, and legal/liability issues will be categorically dismissed as a 'special interest' and told to shut the f**k up and go back to the HEU, BCNU, HSA, BC FED, or the NDP.

Don't say I didn't warn you...