According to a recent poll, about 13% of Canadians support Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that Canada become the 51st state. Naturally we wanted to ask them “what the fuck is wrong with you?!” But instead we went with “why?”
    • @StopTouchingYourPhone
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      I can’t wait to go into debt for a simple check up! 'Murka!

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      “Donald Trump’s a business man. He’s a very successful business man. I think he’s a marketing genius. They needed change down in the US. Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business, the healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses, but the people.” - DoFo in Ontario

      Ontario Nurses Association telling us what’s up back in '22:

      [Ontario’s five largest health care union] leaders expressed grave concern that Ford is using the crisis to drive his costly privatization agenda and warned that two-tier health delivery will make staffing shortages, wait times and patient outcomes even worse by competing for scarce staff and pulling them out of the public system, where wages have been cut.

      Their message: American-style, for-profit health care is not the solution to Ontario’s health care crisis. Instead, Ford should be listening to frontline workers and their unions and focus on immediate solutions to retain the overworked staff who keep our health care system running.