If they act quickly, cab we throw in Maine?
Canada #69
Leftist Canadian Politician Fires Back at Trump — Proposes Annexing California, Washington, and Oregon into Canada
by Jim Hᴏft Jan. 7, 2025
Canada’s Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, took aim at President-elect Donald Trump, offering a wild “proposal” to annex California, Oregon, and Washington into Canada.
Her comments, dripping with arrogance, reveal an out-of-touch politician grasping for relevance while ignoring the stark realities of her own country’s struggles.
Trump posted on Truth Social last month expressing frustration with the United States “subsidizing Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year,” while pointing out that many Canadians might actually welcome the idea of statehood.
He argued it would save Canadians money on taxes and military expenses, framing the prospect as beneficial for both nations.
“No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year? Makes no sense! Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!” Trump wrote.
During a press conference Friday, May dismissed Trump’s proposal that Canada become the 51st state, responding with a snide jab.
“We do not aspire to be the 51st state … If it was a joke, it was never funny, and it ends now.” May said.
“No matter how many Trump photos of him in business suits striding Swiss mountains he posts with a Canadian flag, we’re not intimidated,” she said referring to Trump’s post on Truth Social.
Oh Canada!
Donald Trump Truth Social 04:32 PM EST 12/02/24 @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/XyIx7eCVmE
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) December 4, 2024
However, her attempt to clap back quickly spiraled into absurdity as she extended an invitation for three U.S. states to join Canada, touting Canadian social programs and gun control policies as selling points.
Elizabeth May: “Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you. You think we want to be the 51st state? Nah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California, Oregon, Washington—you’ve got geography in common with us. And not only that, we’ve already got a carbon trading system between California and Quebec. We’ve got some strong alliances on our West Coast from British Columbia. There’s been a lot of academic papers on the idea of Cascadia.
So, California, Governor Newsom, Washington State, Jay Inslee, and newly elected Governor of Oregon, Tina Kotak—how about it? Want to put a referendum to your citizens?…
This is what you get: free health care. Universal free health care. No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list, and their parents are in the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe so they can get their daughter to a doctor. Universal free health care.
And guess what? Those laws your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the National Gun Lobby—we’ve already got our strict gun laws.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/canadian-politician-fires-back-trump-proposes-annexing-california/
This is the status of the Universal Health Care in Canada
Canada #68
Canada’s Dysfunctional Healthcare System Fears ER Surge During Holidays
by Frances Martel 25 Dec 2024
Health providers in Canada have expressed concern in the weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year that the country’s overburdened healthcare system could see a dangerous surge in the number of patients in emergency rooms, encouraging prospective patients to exhaust other available options before going to hospitals.
The holidays approach following the publication of reports this month that wait times to see doctors in Canada, particularly specialists, are longer than even in the modern history of the country, and thousands of Canadians are dying on waitlists for life-saving medical interventions.
Canada boasts a public universal healthcare system, a socialist program in which the government uses taxpayers’ dollars to pay for most services, and every Canadian is covered under the universal system. Canadian patients have long suffered, sometimes deadly, wait times for necessary care, as well as access to substandard services and minimal alternatives to the care the government proscribes. Socialists often tout Canada as a model for the world in pioneering universal health care and blame the overt shortcomings of the system on “underfunding,” providing little context for exactly how much money would ensure a functional system.
Writing at the Global and Mail this month, physician James Maskalyk lamented that emergency rooms often struggle with high volumes of patients because Canadians stranded by their system used emergency rooms instead of increasingly inaccessible family doctors — or even social services for the poor beyond medical needs.
“True emergency cases are surrounded by people accessing other forms of basic care — not just medical, but food, clothing, shelter, even safety,” Maskalyk narrated. “Should you come to the ER, know that you will be triaged quite quickly, but after that there is often an interminable wait.”
“For the sickest we make space right away. Otherwise, the time of day matters more than most realize. Hospitals, and consequently ERs, run at their highest staffing capacity on weekdays, during business hours. Best to come at 8 a.m. rather than 8 p.m. Mondays are almost always the busiest,” the doctor advised.
Maskalyk observed that, in addition to the struggle of addressing problems that the emergency room is not necessarily equipped to, such as “clothing” and “safety,” he noted that the rest of the hospital is often suffering from significant bed shortages.
“If you ask an ER doctor or nurse what contributes most to the stress, you might hear about the shrinking number of beds available to see new patients,” he noted, “because admitted patients are spending days in the ER before there is room for them in another unit. A person in the waiting room might cite the lack of a family doctor. The demand is simply too great.”
Extended doctor wait times have become a growing problem in Canada throughout the past two decades, exacerbated under radical leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A study published this month by the Frasier Institute found that the average wait time to see a specialist in Canada in 2023, after being referred to by a general practitioner, was 30 weeks, 222 percent longer than “the 9.3 weeks Canadian patients could expect to wait in 1993” and a record for the study.
“After seeing a specialist, Canadian patients waited 6.3 weeks longer than what physicians consider to be clinically reasonable (8.6 weeks),” the Institute observed. “Patients also suffered considerable delays for diagnostic technology: 8.1 weeks for CT scans, 16.2 weeks for MRI scans, and 5.2 weeks for Ultrasound.”
While not all extended delays lead to severe medical consequences for patients, some research suggested that many may even create fatal situations. The Canadian healthcare news outlet Healthing noted last week that the think tank Second Street found thousands of Canadians dying while their names were on waitlists for various medical services.
“The data, which was conducted to reflect a year-long period between 2022 and 2023, showed that 17,032 patients died,” Healthing reported, “while their names sat on a waitlist for life-saving surgeries or life-altering procedures such as heart operations or hip replacements.”
“This data shows that the number of waiting list deaths has increased by nearly 67 per cent in the last five years, and between 2022 and 2023, it rose by 30 per cent,” it added.
More:
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2024/12/25/canada-dysfunctional-healthcare-system-fears-er-surge-holidays/
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Canada #67
Young Canadian dies after leaving emergency room due to wait times
By Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire - December 13, 2024
A young Canadian writer and activist died after being told he wasn’t “dying” and made to wait over six hours in an emergency room for further screening.
Adam Burgoyne, 39, posted to X on Dec. 5, 2024, about his experience in a Quebec emergency room a day before his tragic death.
He said he went to the emergency room after feeling a pain in the left side of his chest, having nausea and clammy skin. After attempting to calm himself and breathe through it, things got worse and he decided to go to the emergency room.
“Had a bit of a health scare last night, but thankfully, it wasn’t a heart attack. Not sure what it was, though, because once they made sure I wasn’t dying, I was thrown out into the waiting room, and six hours later, I said f*ck it and went home,” the post said. “Canadian health care, folks. Best in the world.”
A day after the post was made, Burgoyne died of an aortic aneurysm.
The post has since garnered 13.1 million views. In the comments, he noted that the hospital conducted an electrocardiogram and took his blood pressure but “didn’t even do any blood work or x-rays,” though he speculated that they would have had he waited the “18 hours more” to be seen by a doctor.
“It was ECG and BP only, that was enough for them to basically triage me as ‘he can wait indefinitely’ level,” Burgoyne said in his post about the visit.
His comments sparked a conversation about the quality of Canada’s “free” healthcare system, with many sharing similar stories of being sent home or being made to wait despite being in life-threatening conditions.
One post detailed an incident where a man had been turned away from the hospital after waiting six hours in the emergency room due to shortness of breath. The man was allegedly sent home with antibiotics after being diagnosed with pneumonia, only for him to return to the hospital after passing out to be later diagnosed with a blocked artery.
Burgoyne, a gay man, was an advocate for women’s and parents’ rights and recently wrote an opinion piece about the US election on how President-elect Donald Trump’s victory benefitted not just America but the world.
He had over 9,500 followers on X, and many conservative and libertarian voices in the US and Canada followed or worked with Burgoyne.
His friend, a Substack writer with the handle “Holly Mathnerd” wrote a tribute to him on Substack.
“Publicly, he was best known on Twitter as a brave voice against the excesses of gender ideology, particularly the targeting of childhood innocence. He was deeply proud to speak up on this issue, a cause he embraced with passion and ferocity,” the Holly MathNerd wrote.
She reported that some had asked her if the aneurysm could be linked to the COVID vaccines, to which she said he had told her that he had been vaccinated and boosted a total of four times. However, she was careful not to assume a link to the shots.
More:
https://tnc.news/2024/12/13/young-canadian-dies-emergency-room-wait-times/
Looking at your 33 posts I'd say you lack credibility little shill