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To: Frank Pembleton who wrote (4919)	5/3/2005 9:47:20 AM
From: Claude Cormier	Respond to of 37570

Thnak you very much Frank.

To: Frank Pembleton who wrote (4919)	5/3/2005 1:03:43 PM
From: Gulo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37570

I'm from Alberta as well. My experience with Alberta Health Care is not all rosy, but I am sure glad I don't live in B.C. In Alberta, at least the floors are swept clean once in a while. The Nanaimo, B.C., hospital is a disgrace to the whole health care industry. The state of the B.C. Health Care System, along with B.C.'s high taxes and socialist politics, are what are keeping me in Alberta. My main complaint in Alberta is the lack of a market. Private health care is a right, and no government should have the authority to limit or monopolize the market. The whole issue of private versus public health care is argued on irrelevant points. The main point, in my opinion, is that my rights are being violated by the current system. As for libertarianism in Alberta - it's not as healthy as it could be. Certainly, the concept of small government is well appreciated by the average Joe, but it seems to be mostly lip service. Government spending is increasing unchecked, fueled by a flood of oil revenue and populist government's desire to stay elected. Everyone seems to want the government to keep out of his/her affairs, except when they have some pet project that could use funding. In Alberta, it is easy to get involved in politics. I personally know people that are ordinary, albeit successful, citizens that have run for MLA under four different parties. People have become part of the inner circle with only a few years of concerted effort. You have to be born into it (or marry into it) to be part of the Establishment from which Federal Liberal politicians are drawn. In Alberta, most legislation that irritates people has come from the federal government. Things like the sponsorship scandal aren't having much of an impact here because people always assumed that that was how things were done on a federal level. The Establishment is not widely respected out here. The contrast between Klein's "what you see is what you get" popularist circle and Ottawa's secretive old boys' club is one of the things that has kept Klein popular. -g