Andrea Horwath and her fellow New Democrats march as champions of compassion.

As Ontario’s far-left party, the NDP try to own social justice.

Horwath and company separate the needy from those of us who caused the need. They use a simple strategy:

I. Make a clear call for more compassion.

II. Self identify as champions of compassion.

III. Define compassion as they see it and according to their own vision.

IV. Label anyone who disagrees as compassionless.

The NDP starts with a statement we all support then claims this moral high ground as their very own. All their ideas are compassionate, because they themselves are compassionate. Those who disagree are compassionless.

Horwath uses a narrow slice of morality to trump everything else. She redefines fairness/cheating and holds a peculiar sense of liberty/oppression. Then she ignores loyalty, authority or any other social principle.

Divisive

Horwath presents well but only means well for certain people. She divides us into sheep and goats, victims and oppressors. Continue reading “Andrea Horwath – Radicalism Disguised as Compassion”

After 14 years of government planning and activism, Ontario healthcare is a mess.

The ideal political healthcare platform should offer help. It should not take control.

We need public servants, not public leaders. The ideal healthcare platform would tell us what government promises it will never do.

We need to know that government will never tell doctors how to treat patients; that it will stay out of doctors’ and nurses’ way.

Let doctors and nurses figure out what patients need.

Creativity and innovation applied by thousands of doctors and nurses on the front lines of care would crush the performance of any plan devised by brilliant people at Queens Park. Continue reading “Thank God Doug Ford Doesn’t Have Another Plan for Healthcare”

One of the most popular skits from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is “I’m being repressed!”

It contains a powerful lesson on what’s wrong with healthcare and how to fix it.

The skit opens with King Arthur overtaking a young peasant man, Dennis, who Arthur mistakes for an old peasant woman.

Dennis is pulling a cart.

Dennis berates Arthur for exploiting the workers with “outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.”

A peasant woman calls out from the ditch at the side of the road, “Dennis! There’s some lovely filth down here…”

Both peasants then cross examine Arthur on his right to be King: Continue reading “Are Doctors Being Repressed?”