Posted on 09/16/2009 8:11:43 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
In a press release issued late Wednesday, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs expressed consternation over reports that Health Canada has shipped body bags to northern Manitoba native communities as preparation for the onslaught of the winter flu season. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling for an "immediate investigation" into the reports that body bags were received by northern Manitoba communities. "We are as alarmed and disturbed as the chiefs of the northern First Nations with reports that Health Canada shipped body bags as part of its pandemic preparedness plan," said the AMC in their press release
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Well, that’ll brighten your day.
Ping.
Or less politically correct, to the Injun tribes.
Many of my relatives live in Manitoba and Toronto.
They brag that their health-care is “Free”, which is much superior to our system.
Free body bags.... Sweet
Coming soon under ObamaCare!
I've been following this for a while now, and find it amazing how some of these northern Indian reserves expect the government to send them absolutely everything, even soap to wash themselves.
As for the body bags, they are just part of the regular supplies those remote nursing stations are supposed to have as part of their emergency/disaster supply stocks.
Also amazing, is that this reserve chief thinks the government should force nurses and doctors to work on this particular reserve.
Treaty Indians get free education, even medical school if they choose, It's very telling that even a native doctor is not willing to go and work on his own reserve. Native nurses refuse to work at these remote nursing stations as well, even though the pay is excellent.
Some of these reserves aren't pleasant places to be stuck in, and it's not because the government doesn't spend enough money on them. It's because the people have no respect for anything, not even their own homes and people. This is what happens when everything is given to them generation after generation.
Under BummerCare, they will prolly be recyclable.
Those weren’t body bags, those were grizzly condoms!
Thankyou. That adds a whole new perspective. As usual there are two sides to everthing.
The average working Canadian making 60K pays almost 18k in taxes for crappy medicare, twice as much as we pay for an all inclusive private insurance plan, and our hospitals provide all services in most cases, other it's available nearby. We don't have to wait six months just to see a knee specialist to have a torn ACL fixed, and another 6 months for the surgery.
I've run a business in Manitoba for the past 30 years, but would rather bleed to death trying to get back to N Dakota for medical treatment. You'd bleed to death waiting in a Canadian hosital ER anyways.
Ah, NZ, you have hit the proverbial nail square on the head!
When you said that “...or welfare recipients...” you were right. However, my cousins are recipients of a trust and inheritence from my late Uncle, who was a world-renowned
surgeon. These children, and grandchildren, have no idea how money is actually earned. They live off the proceeds of a great man, who saved the lives of literally thousands, but who, on his own death-bed, could not get His own room in Hospital. They generously found Him a janitors closet so He wouldn’t be on a gurney in the hall of the hospital that He, in fact, helped found.
Free medical care my @$$!
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