[Clive]

I am trying to rebuild my tainted blood ping list, so if anyone has names to add, please let me know.

[ikka]

It was left to provinces like Ontario to do the right thing for the abandoned victims, which then premier Mike Harris did, authorizing $25,000 payouts.

Liberals = Democrats; Mike Harris is the equivalent of a Republican, in Canada. It was the Repub who showed true compassion.

[FITZ]

and even if there were, the government has a duty to assume that theoretical risk.

Of course that means their taxpayers.

[ikka]

Mike McCarthy, a Hep C sufferer who contracted the disease in 1986 from blood traced to an Arkansas prison

Run by a big money political contributor to Bill Clinton, and shut down by the Dept of Health; until three days later, due to pressure from Clinton, the blood collection started again.