The Star: Premiers To Create Council Of The Federation

Ottawa watch out! The peasants are revolting!<p><p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

I have never agreed with the federal government giving up so much power to the provinces. This is troublesome.

A country needs a strong federal presence or it will be soon divided. If and when the U.S. integrates us into their territory, they won\'t have any use for a federal government and we will end up becoming individual territories, each making its best deal with the U.S. administration.

I do not feel good about this. Jean Charest can now join the likes of Mike Harris, Ralph Klein, Ernie Eves, Stephen Harper, Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney, etc. as the bunch that sold Canada out.

Sorry about that folks, that is the reality. Get used to it !!



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

I disagree. The feds are responsible to Canada and the provinces, the provinces are responsible to the people.<p> If the liberal party had any sense of direction or leadership, there would be strong federal identity.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

Well, NAFTA and the FTAA will see to that.

Our federal government will die a quick death when assimilation really happens. (Sounds like the Borg, eh ?)

Ralph Klein doesn\'t want to join the National Health Care Council, because it\'s another costly layer of government.

What do you call the Provincial whatever ? It\'s another costly level of government, BUT it\'s in the provinces best interst, not the peoples.

The Health Care council would be a better choice.

Ralph sure can talk out of both sides of his mouth, can\'t he ??





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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

I`m not in favour of the provinces trying to wrestle more control from the federal government! This is how the US and the corporations divide and conquer! Like Trudeau said, \"What`s the federal government for? To cut ribbons?\" No, anytime we`ve had progressive change in this country, it`s been at the federal level! One exception was with Tommy Douglas, who srongly advocated for a national public health care system once he established it in Saskatchewan. One thing I did like when I heard the premiers speak was that they wanted to focus on dismantling the barriers between inter-provincial trade. That`s good, because we should think more east-west, instead of the destructive and integrating north-south. But again, my buddy Klein, ( I know I shouldn`t hate him, doc, but he makes it easy) was talking about possibly opening up the Canada Health Act. What`s he mean here? Privatization? That, as I stated before, would be the death of public health care in Canada. Also, the feds are responsible to the Canadian public. We are already a house too divided! We are the most decentralized country in the industrialized world! This has to stop!

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Dave Ruston

East-west trade barriers should never have happened in this country.

I know that they have barriers in the U.S., some states cannot trade with others, but in a country like ours, with a small population, we should be looking after our own trade first, then we can import and export anywhere we like.

I am aware that it is cheaper to ship from Ontario to Michigan, but if our trade barriers were dis-mantled, then we wouldn\'t have any costs except transportation. No tariffs, no taxes, etc. (It might even bring rail traffic back, better than all those trucks clogging up the highways).

That certainly isn\'t true when shipping overseas or across the border.

Think softwood lumber, they keep stopping us, even though we are right.

Who needs it ??



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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

it\'d be great to have a leader in this country to do this: back out of fta and nafta and look out for our interests. it almost sounds like what castro did in the beginning. its time to take it back.

now we just need some one with the stones to make it happen before its too late

the revolution is at hand