Isn’t an election the time to talk about health-care reform?

Better to stick our head in the sand and marvel over how our universal care system designed decades ago is doing a great job for its citizens today. That is going to help, isn’t it?

In the campaign’s second week, the Liberals, via Chrystia Freeland, went on the attack over what they called a Conservative attempt to privatize the country’s health-care system. Utter the word ‘private’ and your head will be lopped off as if you were some sort of traitor of yesteryear looking to destabilize the Crown. When will it ever be time, asks Tim Powers.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 25, 2021

OTTAWA—It's best to start with a full disclaimer before some eager Liberal or NDP war room staffer decides to run with the following as proof the Conservatives have a hidden agenda on private health care: I am not involved in the Conservative campaign, I am not advising any living or breathing can...

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