Needless to say, there's plenty of reason for confidence if the rest of the election campaign comes down to a contest as to who can best be trusted to strengthen Canada's health care system. But the Libs who are obsessed with replaying their same false grievances so thoroughly debunked in 2006 might want to be particularly careful about reminding Canadians what happened to cause their previous government to fall.
Let's not forget that when the NDP withdrew its support of the Martin government in 2005, it was over a single difference in priorities.
The NDP proposed to strengthen the Canada Health Act as its lone condition for supporting the government through the fall of that year.
And the Libs refused.
So if the question now is who has a track record of fighting for health care (and who's prepared to try to excuse doing nothing about it)...well, the more the Libs want to remind Canadians how they've been out of touch with the priorities of Canadians, the better.
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