Sunday, November 27, 2011

Sunday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to end your weekend.

- Dr. Dawg highlights the fact that a shift toward private charity doesn't do anything to escape the Cons' politicization of public services, as the Ottawa United Way is systematically defunding exactly the same women's programs that have come under fire from the right on the national level.

- Sixth Estate is fleshing out the Fraser Institute's pay-for-play research model - leading me to wonder just what kind of disclaimer could possibly justify reporting on future "studies" from an institute that so shamelessly promotes itself as a service provider to big-money interests seeking a predetermined outcome.

- pogge comments on the insanity of the Cons' funding to stop tobacco farming which was administered by an industry lobby group - and seems to have done nothing but provide free money for continued production.

- Finally, Roy Romanow weighs in once again against the efforts of Preston Manning and others to push more-expensive private care as some kind of solution to health costs:
"The notion of private and public is a bit of a mistaken debate," he said. "The evidence is very very clear that the core provision of health services is more effectively done through the public model."

And he suggested that the discussion of federal versus provincial funding is a moot point.

"The problem with respect to the whole issue of funding is the cost will have to come out of somebody's pocket one way or the other," he said, warning that giving the provinces the means to raise their own health care funds is the wrong way to go.

"Patchwork quilt Canada," he said. "It's as simple as that."

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