Jarnhamar said:
... CBC won't sue Liberals over partisan ad using their material ...
... because the candidate took down material the
first time CBC asked
Thucydides said:
And in 2006, I made a run for Mayor of London (mostly to have a platform to make some points), and had to tackle the then Mayor because her primary campaign promise was to "stop Toronto garbage from being trucked to landfills in Michigan". You can imagine her reaction to my constantly dragging the discussion back to infrastructure and taxation.....
Yup - after spending some time watching municipal politics and having to explain it to people in a previous life, I learned a
lot of people think "government" is WAY more of a single "borg" than it really is. Sometimes, though, different levels of government want to help with a problem they don't have
direct control over, so they do what they can. Some municipalities, for example, have set up teams to help attract doctors to underserviced areas, even though health is a generally a fed-regulates-prov-delivers kinda service.
Thucydides said:
The question about Autism actually reflects a broader issue in that the questioner clearly does not understand how Canada's government works. Questions about Healthcare should be directed to the Provincial government, as it is their jurisdiction.
The provinces
deliver the services, but health is not
exclusively their jurisdiction. That's one of those "both levels have some role" federalism things, like labour, agriculture, transportation and the environment - notice there are both provincial and federal ministers in these areas.
Some of the federal job is to set national standards to prevent tooooooooo much of a difference between different provinces. Why are there not different standards, say, for pilots' medicals in different provinces? Team Fed can do things like develop national strategies to cover things like
diabetes,
suicide prevention and
mental health. This explains why Team Blue, for example, wants to
flesh out a national autism strategy.
How useful are these strategies? How good were the processes leading to these strategies? Do we need national standards, rules or guidelines for X when the provinces know well enough what's needed on the ground? All good topics for debate. But is Canada "in the business" of some stuff that is also the business of provinces, including health? Yup.
