Canada's Plunge into Mediocrity

Canada is a blessed nation in many respects. We are generally and open and welcoming society with abundant natural resources, intelligent and well-educated citizens, a healthy climate for business and so much more. Yet, the country is racing towards mediocrity in many ways.

In our attempts to be "politically correct" we are forgetting what it means to be Canadian. We are subordinating Canadian to the second part of a hyphenated association with a sub-culture within Canada. We dance around issues for fear of hurting someone's feelings rather than confronting issues and hammering them out to the greater interest of us all. Our government is leading that plunge.

We have failed to create any vision for Canada's future. Consequently our nation is aimlessly moving towards chaos at the federal, provincial and local levels.

At the moment there is a parliamentary act, Bill C-51 that proposes draconian controls and moves Canada another step closer to fascism. It attempts to put the natural products, vitamin, supplement, homeopathic industry at a disadvantage. It discourages Canadians from choosing and choosing health. It encourages us to follow the whims of the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession. I realize that many believe they are doing good in both medical and pharma industries, but are they?

We have a "sick care" system, not a "health care" system regardless of what it is labelled officially. Doctors treat the sick. Hospitals are for the sick. Pharmaceuticals are to treat the sick and diseased. None of this promotes sustaining of a healthy state so that we don't get sick. There is no education in Canada beyond the most basic levels in grade school that is aimed at teaching us about maintaining our personal health. Essentially we are left with the knowledge that if we get sick we get taken care of. That's fine and we do enjoy that, but why not encourage us to avoid sickness?

Bill C-51 supports the pharmaceutical industry interests. I'm sure it's being paid for behind the scenes with payoffs to our Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) and Minister of Health (Tony Clement). Sure, those will be hidden in contributions or some in-kind donation to something or other. You won't see the money in their bank accounts. But it's no less real. C-51 puts roadblocks in the path of those of us who choose health, who choose to educate ourselves (because we care) and who choose to stay out of our expensive and overburdened "sick care" system. It's absurdity and it is driving Canada down yet another path to mediocrity.

If you are a Canadian reading this I urge you to write to your MP, to our Min of Health (Tony Clement) and our PM (Stephen Harper) to urge them to withdraw C-51 or at least to vote against it. Their address is: name, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6. No postage is required for letters to parliament so save your stamps. If you want to learn more please click on the link I've provided.

Choose free choice. Choose health. Choose a healthy and vigorous Canada free from the political interference of our industrial lobby groups. Choose parliamentarians who truly represent all of our best interests in common not the interests of small special interest groups to the exclusion of others.