"Why is charging user-fees for abortions in some provinces and two-tier abortion clinics in others never questioned by the Liberals?"

Ottawa - Today in the House of Commons, Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. for Yorkton-Melville, exposed the Liberal’s hypocritical position in the health care debate. "Health Minister Allan Rock and the Prime Minister ignore the truth about the existence of two-tier Medicare in Canada and are deliberately misleading Canadians," accused Breitkreuz. "Two-tier Medicare is everywhere, but nowhere is it more evident than in funding of public and private abortuaries."

The Liberals and the NDP are wailing and wringing their hands over Alberta’s Bill 11. Terms like two-tier Medicare and private clinics are used as if that is something strictly forbidden in Canada – just like it is in Cuba and North Korea. It’s strange that only certain provinces and sectors of the health care system are targeted by the socialists for this criticism. Two years ago, the Globe reported that 21 special private clinics are operating in Canada. In most provinces these clinics are even funded by the taxpayer – except in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba where clients were charged three to five hundred dollars. No one said a word about these clinics nor anything about these provinces violating the Canada Health Act. We have a government that allows privatization of health clinics that provide abortions but not private health clinics that provide medically necessary heart surgery. This is an obvious double standard. The dictionary defines a standard that applies to others but not to oneself as hypocrisy!

 

E-Mail: breitg@parl.gc.ca