ah, the joys of socialized medicine!
Canada has socialized insurance not socialized medicine. And dentistry is pretty much free market. That is I am pretty sure that most dentistry in Canada is paid for directly or by private insurance. There is funding in some provinces for cleaning for children under 12 and limited for the very poor, but that is pretty much it. So if a Canadian has bad teeth don't blame it on single payer: Canada does not have single payer dentistry.
Do you also have a Minister of Pudding, Bolo Ties, Poutine and Muscle Cars?
Yeah. Duh. (Actually I think Poutine is part of the Francophonie.)
Actually, I think it's three different portfolios. It's a Conservative gov't that's not well represented in Women and Francophones, so it's a bit of a pile on. Also, this woman apparently campaigned hard to be the Culture minister.
Now there's a native blessing, followed by a multi ethnic, world musicy drum group from NS. World msuic so has to make it on the Stuff White People Like blog.
Hey, I'm impressed that Canada has "status of women" as an official anything, even if it's lumped in with a bunch of other stuff. We don't have anything like that.
In not-Canada news (be glad this doesn't apply to you!), an excellent overview of the Top 10 Lowlights of the Bush Presidency.
I wanted cranberry juice, not pomegranate. No wonder it's so drinkable.
Why has LJ gone down? Hmph.
Well, she's the minister of so many things because they get so little play. It's not like the Minister of Defence or Finance also has a lot of minor portfolios.
Why has LJ gone down?
Because Pete Wentz had an erection?