Surprise: Conservatives Happier Than Liberals According To Study
Surprise: Conservatives Happier Than Liberals According To Study.
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CTV Montreal Published Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:14PM EDT Last Updated Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:30PM EDT
Could a two-tier health system be on its way to Quebec?
Variations on that theme were among the many scenarios presented at a the Liberal Forum for Ideas, which focused on health care spending in the province, in its first of two days in Montreal Saturday.
And although the suggestions were often vague, all agreed that the system needs new ways to refinance, as if left unchecked health care costs will outstrip Quebecs tax revenues by 2038.
The man in charge said that he wants prompt action.
If we are to have a health care system that is sustainable, we need to change not in two, three or four years, we need to change today," Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette told CTV Montreal.
Barrette said that services can be maintained at a lower cost with better use of equipment, more prevention and cutting 1,300 health care managers.
We will make announcements that will go in the direction of restructuring. In doing that there will be a gain of efficiency and when we do that we need normally less people to do the same work, he said.
Premier Philippe Couillard echoed the notion that changes are needed pronto.
I would turn this around and make it an opportunity because of the urgency of our fiscal situation. We are not only obliged but we must absolutely speed up the process of innovation, said Couillard.
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New methods of health funding urgently needed, say Liberals
A growing chorus of liberal Democrats is pushing President Obama to get Congress's explicit approval before launching missile strikes into Syria.
The pressure from supporters on Capitol Hill is not only a headache for Obama, but also puts House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats in the difficult position of bucking a broad segment of their own caucus in order to protect an ally in the White House.
Scores of Democrats had signed letters a year ago advocating against military strikes targeting the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad without congressional backing.
Thirteen months later the enemy has a new face, but a large number of those lawmakers say they remain committed to securing Congress's role in deciding matters of war, even as Obama is claiming unilateral authority to expand the fight against militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
A vote is necessary, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) told The Hill. The president is already empowered to act forcefully against those who murdered Americans, but he should seek congressional authorization to engage in the broader, sustained combat he envisions."
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) piled on.
It would be very reckless, in my view, for him to go in and start doing all this without getting a vote from the Congress, he told MSNBC recently.
Pelosi, a fierce opponent of the Iraq war under the George W. Bush, has toed the line between the liberal critics and Obama by urging a congressional debate on the use-of-force question, but stopping short of calling for a vote at least for now.
Whether we take a vote or not, we're not at that point because we believe the president has the authority, Pelosi told reportersThursday.
Speaker John Boehner has also avoided calls for a vote on use-of-force authority.
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Land of the liberals: Gender and lib speak
By: DeShiia Coleman
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This week Premier Christy Clark and her cabinet will sit down with B.C.'s First Nations leaders. For leaders who were promised better by this premier, this meeting has been a long time coming.
The premier made it a leadership commitment to hold an annual meeting with aboriginal leaders, and made a show of addressing the First Nations Summit when she became leader in 2011. But after that, she turned her back on her promise until now.
For years, First Nations in British Columbia have seen the same pattern from the BC Liberals: big promises and elaborate photo ops, but little real action.
Again and again, the BC Liberals have said that developing a real relationship is a priority. Then, the government's focus shifts elsewhere and promises are forgotten.
The relationship between First Nations and the B.C. Liberals began even before they were in government, when Liberal MLAs went to court in an attempt to have the historic Nisga'a Treaty declared unconstitutional.
That relationship continued to spiral with the divisive referendum on aboriginal rights and self-government that the BC Liberal government held in 2002, when Christy Clark was serving as deputy premier. The referendum did nothing but destroy trust.
Yet even Gordon Campbell held annual meetings between First Nations and the Liberal cabinet until, in 2005, he committed his government to forging a New Relationship with First Nations.
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VIEW: Liberals need a new relationship with First Nations, starting with trust