Here's a good site:<BR> <a href="http://www.tranquileye.com/stockwell/index.php">http://www.tranquileye.com/stockwell/index.php</a><BR> examples:<BR> <P> "We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system." - Stephen Harper, Toronto Star, October 2002. <P> "It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act." - Stephen Harper, then Vice-President of the National Citizens Coalition, 1997 <P> "What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]." - Stephen Harper, then President of the NCC, 2001.

   

Says Princeton University scientist Michael Oppenheimer, "If you believe in a rational universe, in enlightenment, in knowledge and in a search for the truth, this White House is an absolute disaster." And now it would seem it is to be our turn. No matter how many empirical studies and royal commissions affirm the same verity, private health care costs more and delivers less than public health care, radical corporatists like Stephen Harper aver the opposite. Citing such 'compelling' arguments as "natural evolution" and it being "past time" they seek to overthrow what every single bit of data at our disposal tells us. Private medicare erodes public medicare, costs more, delivers less and effectively ends the principal of universality.

   

I just found an article about a BC Conservative candidate defending private health care just yeaterday:<BR> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/election/national/2004/06/15/health_bc040615.html">http://www.cbc.ca/story/election/national/2004/06/15/health_bc040615.html</a><BR> ^ it's not about Harper, but it's about a Conservative. Here's one about Harper though:<BR> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/10/canada/harphealth040510">http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/10/canada/harphealth040510</a>

   

<a href="http://www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=378">A whole slew of Harper quotes</a> Take care

   

There is something very weird about Harper, he has an arrogant confidence of someone who really doesn't care what he says, almost like it doesn't matter, it's a done deal...I hope I am wrong but the posturing is rather like a very sure nonchalant person, Martin is acting and looks desperate, Layton seems rather hopeful and expectant, Gilles Duceppe(spelling?)doesn't give a damn period, he really shouldnt' be there in my opinion, as he acts more like the Governor of a small kingdom; but alas I digress;

it is Harper that is really bothering me, he isn't trying to convince voters one way or the other and that makes me very leary, he is declaring this is the way it's gonna be and tough if you don't like, or as he says, who cares...anyone else getting that feeling?

   

Whelen, great observations on the party leaders... Im a fan of Duceppe as a Governor of a small kingdom. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/lol.gif' alt='Laughing Out Loud'>

   

[QUOTE BY= Poz] Im a fan of Duceppe as a Governor of a small kingdom. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/lol.gif' alt='Laughing Out Loud'> [/QUOTE] <br /> <br />And we shall call this kingdom "St. Pierre and Miquelon" and he shall rule there with impunity. Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of no one giving a Flying F***. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'><p> <br />I'll bet Quebecers are ticked with their 'protest' votes now!<p>

   

Well I must be no one then, cause I do give a flying ...I don't like this separation b.s. in any province, I can feel a new flag being designed in some dark room somewhere, and a new national anthem as well!

   

whelan, don't worry, keep your eyes on the prize. Provinces don't just get to separate, there is a lot more to it. People get upset before, during and after elections. It doesn't mean a whole lot, they are just blowing off steam.