tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post8935894046540671246..comments2008-12-20T07:04:51.922-05:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-77798702808128021812008-12-19T21:14:00.000-05:002008-12-19T21:14:00.000-05:00There is no money attached to coming here. The committee does not bribe doctors. <BR/><BR/>Here is where we see the difference between newspapers and blogs. Newspapers mis-use quote information sometimes, not necessarily on purpose. Blogs sometimes just take a concept and make up facts around it to support ones own opinion. <BR/><BR/>Lets stick to the facts, and find those facts before one decides to launch an ad hominem on someone putting hundreds of hours per year into trying to help the health of families, children and others who do not currently have a doctor.<BR/><BR/>Shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-17789709526684422902008-12-17T10:16:00.000-05:002008-12-17T10:16:00.000-05:00The other thing about this doctor recruitment committee that frustrates me is that while the poster concedes the Province should be acting on this issue and claims to "continue to advocate in that arena" very little pressure is brought to bear. <BR/><BR/>I have never seen any public entreaty from this committee for all of us to write to Premier McGuinty and write to MPP Lou to demand that they fix the problem!<BR/><BR/>It is the same problem that will derail efforts to achieve poverty reduction - the service providers get busy having meetings all over the place, trying to decide what poverty really means, then coming up with better ways to distribute food to poor people, and they get so busy with all this they completely forget that ending poverty means achieving justice, not handing out more food. <BR/><BR/>No effort is made to force legislative change to raise the welfare rates and protect workers and tenants, so poverty continues and the government chuckles happily, in full knowledge that these service providers will never challenge either their elected representatives or the public to speak out to demand justice. <BR/><BR/>As long as we continue to let government off the hook at the same time we make ourselves feel warm and fuzzy by donating our time/canned goods in misguided efforts to help, nothing will change.<BR/><BR/>By the way, it is mainly the poor who wait the longest to find doctors. Middle class people get taken on much more quickly. That's a whole other issue though, we'll save that for another discussion.<BR/>DJOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-65959770111620169112008-12-17T09:58:00.000-05:002008-12-17T09:58:00.000-05:00Ben I was sure you'd get in trouble for that post. How dare you presume to criticise praiseworthy volunteer work performed by our Betters? <BR/><BR/>Even if it is misguided and a waste of money, that is no excuse for pointing out the plan's flaws. Surely after all those years in military service for Great Britain, you should know that by now!<BR/><BR/>The Toffs and the Generals can do no wrong, and their every pronouncement and gesture must be applauded. Loudly.<BR/><BR/>DJOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com