I wish these were the only problems with healthcare in Canada. I have two family members who served in very senior positions in healthcare administration in Canada, one at the provincial level and one at the federal level, just one or two positions "down from the top". I have not asked them, but I wonder what they think of this current s…
I wish these were the only problems with healthcare in Canada. I have two family members who served in very senior positions in healthcare administration in Canada, one at the provincial level and one at the federal level, just one or two positions "down from the top". I have not asked them, but I wonder what they think of this current slow-moving disaster going on in Canadian healthcare. The one who was helping to run Health Canada even privately told me about the advantages of acquiring a concierge medical plan south of the 49th parallel to augment the Canadian plan, because of the weaknesses of the Canadian system. And this is someone who served for a a few decades at the very top of the Canadian healthcare infrastructure. It has problems, but not the problems that are reported upon gleefully by US media and politicians. Ask the person who helped design and run the system if you want to know the real problems.
I noticed that the Canadian federal government is in some pitched battle with Canadian physicians over their attempts to broaden the MAiD program (i.e. assisted suicide). And many Canadian medical schools have had the federal government dictate that they have to restrict the size of their graduating classes, in spite of huge looming shortages. My friend Lawrence Krauss has written with some concern about the state of healthcare in PEI, that he has become aware of after he moved there.
And then you add on top of that the types of 'professional college' attacks on various physicians, which are similar to the ongoing attacks on Jordan Peterson. Canadian healthcare seems to be in serious trouble, from my vantage point.
I was considering moving back home to Canada. But the situation looks pretty bad from where I sit down here in the "Evil Empire". I am watching with some concern.
Canadians, even recent immigrants, are leaving Canada. An overwhelming percentage of Canadians agree that "Canada is broken." The country is grinding to a halt, universities in the lead. You are considering returning?
I was. I was even going to potentially bring a substantial commercial enterprise with me.
However, Canada, the place of my birth, appears to be becoming increasingly unwelcoming. I have never seen anything quite like it. Canada was never fantastic in R and D. However, things have gone from bad to worse, or at least that is my impression.
And the government and citizens do not seem particularly concerned, from what I can tell. They might even be gleeful at the prospects of losing their hard-won status as a first world country that many admired and respected. They are getting poorer and more backwards. Their reputation is suffering from all the shenanigans that are going on. They always had a terrible brain drain, but the current situation definitely is not helping.
It is sort of shameful, really.
And so, until things turn around, I will NOT be coming back to Canada to live or invest.
My parents, who have now passed away, would have been horrified. How did things get so bad, so quickly? It does not HAVE to be the way it is currently. Wow.
Many Canadians do seem to care. The majority is appalled by the performance of PM Trudeau and his government. A lot of Canadians are really angry. Whether and to what extent this will lead to changes that will turn things around, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, it is wise for you to stay put.
When I ask my friends back in Canada, they seem to suggest that Canadians are too complacent and too lazy to do anything at all. They think that Canadians will just let the authorities run roughshod over them and make their lives a living hell.
I know Canadians are not particularly combative, and are conflict avoidant. I was that way when I moved to the US, and I have become far more obnoxious and offensive just to survive in this much rougher environment down here. It was a conscious decision on my part, actually.
The one thing I am confident of is that the Yanks, as rude and crude as they often are, are prepared to fight if they are pushed far enough. In surveys for years, more than half of all Americans expect another civil war to break out at some point. And I think the tensions are pretty high at the moment. I am not sure the Aussies are willing to fight to defend their way of life, and I am even less sure that the Canucks are willing to do so.
Even though the Yanks are prepared to fight against this woke ideology, I am not completely convinced that they will rise to the occasion in enough time to save themselves, their country and the rest of Western Civilization. That remains to be seen, unfortunately.
I wish these were the only problems with healthcare in Canada. I have two family members who served in very senior positions in healthcare administration in Canada, one at the provincial level and one at the federal level, just one or two positions "down from the top". I have not asked them, but I wonder what they think of this current slow-moving disaster going on in Canadian healthcare. The one who was helping to run Health Canada even privately told me about the advantages of acquiring a concierge medical plan south of the 49th parallel to augment the Canadian plan, because of the weaknesses of the Canadian system. And this is someone who served for a a few decades at the very top of the Canadian healthcare infrastructure. It has problems, but not the problems that are reported upon gleefully by US media and politicians. Ask the person who helped design and run the system if you want to know the real problems.
I noticed that the Canadian federal government is in some pitched battle with Canadian physicians over their attempts to broaden the MAiD program (i.e. assisted suicide). And many Canadian medical schools have had the federal government dictate that they have to restrict the size of their graduating classes, in spite of huge looming shortages. My friend Lawrence Krauss has written with some concern about the state of healthcare in PEI, that he has become aware of after he moved there.
And then you add on top of that the types of 'professional college' attacks on various physicians, which are similar to the ongoing attacks on Jordan Peterson. Canadian healthcare seems to be in serious trouble, from my vantage point.
I was considering moving back home to Canada. But the situation looks pretty bad from where I sit down here in the "Evil Empire". I am watching with some concern.
Canadians, even recent immigrants, are leaving Canada. An overwhelming percentage of Canadians agree that "Canada is broken." The country is grinding to a halt, universities in the lead. You are considering returning?
I was. I was even going to potentially bring a substantial commercial enterprise with me.
However, Canada, the place of my birth, appears to be becoming increasingly unwelcoming. I have never seen anything quite like it. Canada was never fantastic in R and D. However, things have gone from bad to worse, or at least that is my impression.
And the government and citizens do not seem particularly concerned, from what I can tell. They might even be gleeful at the prospects of losing their hard-won status as a first world country that many admired and respected. They are getting poorer and more backwards. Their reputation is suffering from all the shenanigans that are going on. They always had a terrible brain drain, but the current situation definitely is not helping.
It is sort of shameful, really.
And so, until things turn around, I will NOT be coming back to Canada to live or invest.
My parents, who have now passed away, would have been horrified. How did things get so bad, so quickly? It does not HAVE to be the way it is currently. Wow.
Many Canadians do seem to care. The majority is appalled by the performance of PM Trudeau and his government. A lot of Canadians are really angry. Whether and to what extent this will lead to changes that will turn things around, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, it is wise for you to stay put.
When I ask my friends back in Canada, they seem to suggest that Canadians are too complacent and too lazy to do anything at all. They think that Canadians will just let the authorities run roughshod over them and make their lives a living hell.
I know Canadians are not particularly combative, and are conflict avoidant. I was that way when I moved to the US, and I have become far more obnoxious and offensive just to survive in this much rougher environment down here. It was a conscious decision on my part, actually.
The one thing I am confident of is that the Yanks, as rude and crude as they often are, are prepared to fight if they are pushed far enough. In surveys for years, more than half of all Americans expect another civil war to break out at some point. And I think the tensions are pretty high at the moment. I am not sure the Aussies are willing to fight to defend their way of life, and I am even less sure that the Canucks are willing to do so.
Even though the Yanks are prepared to fight against this woke ideology, I am not completely convinced that they will rise to the occasion in enough time to save themselves, their country and the rest of Western Civilization. That remains to be seen, unfortunately.