Monday, January 09, 2006
Liberal Party of Canada's Cancer Strategy LESS THAN the Private Initiative They Stonewalled to Protect the RCMP!!!
Before reading this CTV News article, please bear in mind the Pinny strategy was to derive up to US$30,000,000 ANNUALLY for cancer research to find a cure.
This programme, blocked by the Liberal government to protect RCMP ineptness and conspiracy, was MORE than the Canadian government has proposed to give!
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Commons approves federal cancer strategy
Updated Tue. Jun. 7 2005 11:32 PM ET
"Canadian Press"
The Commons passed an opposition motion Tuesday calling on the government to fully fund a strategy to curb cancer, mental illness and heart disease, but it likely won't lead to any new spending.
Conservative Steven Fletcher, who put the motion forward, said it commits the government to pay for a cancer strategy proposed by the Canadian Cancer Society, which would require $260 million over five years.
But Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said the federal government isn't promising new money, and the motion is consistent with commitments already made in this year's budget, to provide $300 million over five years for all chronic diseases, not just cancer.
"We're doing a healthy living, integrated, chronic disease strategy," Dosanjh said after the motion was passed. "We have $300 million for all the diseases. They know that. I told them that."
The motion calls on the government "to fully fund and implement the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control" in collaboration with provinces, territories and municipalities, without specifying what that strategy would be.
Parliamentary procedure dictates that only government bills can contain spending measures.
Conservative Rob Merrifield said the motion refers specifically to a known strategy developed by anti-cancer groups, and the Liberals know what it means.
"That strategy is a specific one brought forward by many groups and it has a dollar amount. If they want to spin it like they're doing - that's exactly what that is, a spin."
Currently Canada has control strategies for two diseases -- AIDS and diabetes -- and there have been many questions over the years about the logic of focusing on only two diseases.
It's rare for an opposition motion to pass. Corridor talk early in the day had the government intending to oppose Fletcher's motion, while a number of Liberal backbenchers wanted to support it.
In the end, the government supported the motion along with the New Democrats and Conservatives while the Bloc Quebecois voted no. The Bloc considers federal involvement in health matters to be an intrusion on provincial jurisdiction.
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The corresponding CTV LINK is in the left side margin.
This programme, blocked by the Liberal government to protect RCMP ineptness and conspiracy, was MORE than the Canadian government has proposed to give!
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Commons approves federal cancer strategy
Updated Tue. Jun. 7 2005 11:32 PM ET
"Canadian Press"
The Commons passed an opposition motion Tuesday calling on the government to fully fund a strategy to curb cancer, mental illness and heart disease, but it likely won't lead to any new spending.
Conservative Steven Fletcher, who put the motion forward, said it commits the government to pay for a cancer strategy proposed by the Canadian Cancer Society, which would require $260 million over five years.
But Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said the federal government isn't promising new money, and the motion is consistent with commitments already made in this year's budget, to provide $300 million over five years for all chronic diseases, not just cancer.
"We're doing a healthy living, integrated, chronic disease strategy," Dosanjh said after the motion was passed. "We have $300 million for all the diseases. They know that. I told them that."
The motion calls on the government "to fully fund and implement the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control" in collaboration with provinces, territories and municipalities, without specifying what that strategy would be.
Parliamentary procedure dictates that only government bills can contain spending measures.
Conservative Rob Merrifield said the motion refers specifically to a known strategy developed by anti-cancer groups, and the Liberals know what it means.
"That strategy is a specific one brought forward by many groups and it has a dollar amount. If they want to spin it like they're doing - that's exactly what that is, a spin."
Currently Canada has control strategies for two diseases -- AIDS and diabetes -- and there have been many questions over the years about the logic of focusing on only two diseases.
It's rare for an opposition motion to pass. Corridor talk early in the day had the government intending to oppose Fletcher's motion, while a number of Liberal backbenchers wanted to support it.
In the end, the government supported the motion along with the New Democrats and Conservatives while the Bloc Quebecois voted no. The Bloc considers federal involvement in health matters to be an intrusion on provincial jurisdiction.
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The corresponding CTV LINK is in the left side margin.
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