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To: Fair Go

This is a tricky question. The answer from our (Australian and NZ) perspective is a no because on a practical policy level (such as who can sell alcohol, who should fund and run halthcare, should government unemployment benefit provision exist) the Right and Left in English Canada (i.e Ontario) agree with much of it. High Toryism begets Red Toryism which is "socially conservative supporting traditional institutions like religion and the monarchy but fiscally consensual and moderate, with a strong belief in the welfare state".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tory

Generally support of free market and individual responsbility is quite weak in Ontario if we believe in polls and responses of a number of Canadian FRers here. We have no doubt conservatives in our two countries support free market and believe, like our American friends do, it is a cornerstone of conservatism. But then I talked about market forces being a cornerstone of conservatism on another thread and I was treated as if I were a space alien by a Canadian FRer LOL.

But back to the topic. Healthcare in Canada runs to the Left of us - here in NZ only the far-left Greens want a Canadian-style purely public healthcare system and I would imagine in Australia the proposal would never even have left the nutty left intellectuals' saloons.


23 posted on 12/03/2005 12:55:22 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Alberta independentists to Canada (read: Ontario and Quebec): One hundred years is long enough)
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To: NZerFromHK

BTW, no disrespect, but no one gives a rats ass about New Zealand
or what happens there..
It is but a pimple on the arse of humanity..


28 posted on 12/04/2005 6:23:04 AM PST by CaptainCanada (A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
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To: NZerFromHK
if we believe in polls and responses of a number of Canadian FRers here

Link to the polls please and baiting is naughty.

30 posted on 12/04/2005 7:19:20 AM PST by kanawa
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