Re: “New health tax will be a job killer,” comment, Dec. 30.
I think that Kris Sims makes some good points in her diatribe. However, she is missing the fact that we will end up with more infighting going on with no satisfactory decision in the end and possibly none between provincial governments and Ottawa.
Until I came to Canada, I had lived under the health-care system that had been in place in Britain since 1948.
At this point, only Eire is not part of that original consortium. I realize that their system is having some growing pains at the moment, but eventually, it will smooth out.
I lived under their system from 1948 till I emigrated to Canada with a family of five in 1964.
I did not emigrate because of their health system, but sought better opportunities for my three sons in the future.
If people think that it is not at all possible to bring together the provinces and the Canadian government in an overall medical scheme for all Canadians, then they have not studied how the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English populations managed to achieve it back in 1948.
The difference is that it was achieved by the country’s main government in the British parliament. So it is time Ottawa stepped up to the plate and pulled this country a little closer to itself. They, I have to say, are somewhat reluctant to do this, at times.
Derek Rennie
Victoria
