Talk:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
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This article is part of WikiProject Alberta, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Alberta, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |  |
I'm new to Wikipedia so I might not be using proper format in this discussion page. Anyhow, I deleted these two sentences from the article: "In actual fact, however, Alberta is not among the provinces that run a private system parallel to the publicly-funded one. Provinces that do so include Saskatchewan and Québec." As an Ontario resident, I can tell you that it is very easy to walk into a private clinic and pay for essential medical services. In fact, I recently watched a CBC documentary on "The Passionate Eye" that revealed the reality of a private, for-profit healthcare tier in Canada. It's easy to believe otherwise because for-profit clinics are very controversial and hence low-profile; nonetheless, they definitely exist in virtually all provinces, providing essential medical services to those fed-up with Medicare waiting times. Even federal political leaders, such as Jack Layton, have acknowledged the presence of private, for-profit healthcare clinics throughout Canada. Jack Layton in particular wants to ensure that public funds are not used to subsidise these private clinics. Currently, private clinics operating outside Medicare are not banned under Canadian law; consequently, a for-profit healthcare market has developed across the entire nation. I just raised the factual accuracy flag so people will read this and not revert the article to its former state. 69.198.222.59 04:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Premier of Alberta
Though Stelmach is the new PC leader; we should wait until he becomes Premier, before listing him as such in the first paragraph. GoodDay 17:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
