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As health ministers gather tomorrow, we’re again hearing about rising and “unstainable” public health care costs. Nonsense. In fact, Canadians’ public health care spending is going down.
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), in real terms “since 2011, health spending has decreased by an average of 0.6% per year.” That’s a 5% total decrease.
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/14/tom-parkin-unsustainable-health-care-nonsense
Canada “faces an important domestic and foreign money laundering threat” from criminal organizations that launder billions of dollars in this country.
The stiff warning comes from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which also sounds an alarm about the threat against “major financial institutions and some unscrupulous real estate lawyers” targeted by criminals involved in laundering money.
During Sunday’s U.S. presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald Trump said Canada’s “catastrophic” health-care system is prompting Canadians to head south for treatment — but a new report says the number of health tourists has fallen year over year.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-health-tourists-drop-1.3800729
Donald Trump took aim at Canada’s Health Care System during Sunday night’s town hall debate with Hillary Clinton.
When asked about costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, he called it a “disaster.” He then said Clinton’s changes would create a system similar to Canada’s, which he called “catastrophic.”
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/news/companies/pacnet-mail-fraud-mafia/
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) released a statement yesterday alarming us all to the fact that around 7PM today, Québec’s public debt surpassed $280 billion dollars. As if that figure wasn’t staggering enough – and literally incomprehensible to most of us – the MEI’s statement was quick to add that public debt is also growing to the tune of about $8 billion per year.
Source: http://www.lifeinquebec.com/reading-government-debt-20911/
Renamed Bill 41, the Patients First Act was reintroduced at Queen’s Park on Thursday. The Ontario Medical Association was conspicuously absent from listed supporters. That may be because front-line doctors call Bill 41 the “Bureaucracy First and Patients Last Act
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2016/10/07/bill-41-would-flood-your-health-care-with-bureaucracy
Life is getting harder for Canadian multinationals trying to reduce taxes by transferring profits abroad.
In its latest budget, the federal government committed to increasing enforcement efforts against companies that improperly shift profits to lower-tax countries by abusing a legal practice known as transfer pricing—but the Canada Revenue Agency has already been cracking down on the abuse for years.
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Donald Trump brought up Canadian health care as an example of a “flawed” public system during the second U.S. presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis on Sunday.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/10/09/donald-trump-canada_n_12423178.html
Ontario’s Liberal government defended allowing medical marijuana users to vaporize anywhere by saying they had consulted “very broadly” – but emails show those consultations involved the input of just two people, The Canadian Press has learned.Ultimately, the associate health minister had to defend the policy for just one day after the government backtracked on the policy within 24 hours.
The emails, obtained through freedom-of-information legislation, show the premier’s top staff members were both unaware of the new rule and confused by it.
The new e-cigarette regulations banned the use of the devices anywhere regular cigarettes were prohibited. But the government provided an exemption for medical marijuana users, meaning they could have vaped in restaurants, at work or on playgrounds.
The exemption became public Nov. 25 and by the next day, Dipika Damerla, then the associate health minister, said that based on the feedback the government had received, they were going back to the drawing board. The government ultimately decided there would be no exemption.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-medical-marijuana-1.3798825