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Courts are the biggest threat to Canadian medicare
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that provincial governments were required under the Canada Health Act to provide patients only with “core” services and that their failure to offer more did not violate anyone’s charter rights… A 2004 Federal Court… judge ruled he had no authority to make the federal government monitor and enforce the Canada Health Act… When it comes to expanding collective rights connected to medicare, the courts are cautious and deferential. But when it comes to expanding individual rights at the expense of medicare, they are far bolder.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, privatization, rights
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The non-transparent reality of Canadian corporate welfare
Arguments over the efficacy of subsidies to business aside, taxpayers at least deserve to know how much of their money is granted, loaned and repaid – including how the loans perform. The answers are increasingly difficult to obtain… The Access to Information Act needs revision. Its current version and its interpretation lead to this costly, non-transparent reality: Taxpayers must pay for corporate welfare. They are not permitted to know key details.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights
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In Brad Wall’s deal, clues for medicare’s future
Ottawa says the national health act is meant to ensure Canadians have reasonable access to medical care based on need, not on the ability to pay… The fact is, two-tier health care already exists. It happens when people can’t afford prescriptions that others can. It happens when people take advantage of extended health-care plans others don’t have. It happens at the dentist’s office that many can’t afford. It happens when you are a member of a group exempted under the act and allowed to attend private clinics.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Canada is doing well … but we could do so much better
I suggest (once again) a flexible HST — raise it on elective spending (luxury goods, complex financial transactions and the mere velocity of money in financial markets) to eliminate the deficit, and reduce taxes on small personal and corporate incomes to ease the conditions of the most vulnerable and provide affordable stimulus… and shift stimulus from the sterility of traditional welfare, other than where there is no practical alternative because of the acute needs of the seriously disadvantaged…
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Big cities are much more unequal than Canada as a whole
… the bottom 95 per cent of Canadians received 74.9 per cent of all income in 2014, but this proportion was just 69.3 per cent in Toronto… Along with the poor, the squeezed urban middle class, especially the young, are increasingly unable to enjoy the benefits of big city life. These growing spatial inequalities will increasingly shape urban politics in the years to come.
Tags: economy, featured, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Trudeau Should Forget Infrastructure P3s and Support a People’s Bank
Only a few have called this what it is: a long-term plan to funnel billions from the public purse into giant investment firms. Privatization plans have proven deeply unpopular once they are widely understood, as the Ontario Liberals discovered after announcing plans to sell off Hydro One… postal banks could be similar to credit unions, but they would reach hundreds of small rural communities that don’t have access to banking at all.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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A Web of Deceit: Untangling the Myths and False Promises of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The commitments government trade negotiators make behind closed doors lock in a myopic and increasingly em- battled neoliberal orthodoxy — small government, big finance, weak regu- lation and a preference for privatized service delivery — that prevents future governments from changing course without great political and financial costs.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, privatization, rights, standard of living
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CETA Failure Reflects Public Rejection of Sweeping Trade Deals
Given that Europe and Canada both offer reliable, respected court systems, there is little reason to insist on investor-state dispute settlement rules at all… expanded trade should not require Canada to face increased health care costs (as would result from CETA’s extension of patent protections) or Europe to confront changes to various food and safety regulations.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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What’s Wallonia’s Beef?
The most important innovation in CETA is the creation of a standing tribunal and appellate body. Members are appointed by the CETA parties, not the parties to a dispute, and must meet high standards for independence and the avoidance of conflicts of interest. Appellate review should improve the quality and consistency of ISDS awards… “… while not perfect, CETA’s approach has the best claim to legitimacy in any treaty to date”
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Province proposes limiting powers of Ontario Municipal Board
The quasi-judicial OMB — which hears disputes on everything from plans for monster homes to developers’ proposals for tall buildings that ignore city planning guidelines — has long been the bane of communities and councils. It is one of the most powerful appeal bodies of its kind in North America, with the ability to hear appeals as if they were new proposals and to overturn council decisions — allowing developers to circumvent the process of community consultation, review by city planning staff and approval by elected city councils.
Tags: housing, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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