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After five years as program director at Fosterbrooke Long Term Care Facility in Newcastle, Joanne Dykeman (C) is leaving to take up anew position; Regional Knowledge Manager, with Central Park Lodge. (continued from page 2) The stubbornness of the public health care system results in a multitude of new rules and regulations that prop up each year. When you divorce the customer from the cost, you take away the incentive incentive for the customer to act appropriately. Is it really necessary necessary for you to get your teeth professionally cleaned again? Does it matter if you're not paying for it? Sure, Doc, go for it. And so people go for the most minor of ailments since, in the end, it doesn't cost them anything. So each year our political heroes come up with more and more strictures. You can get your teeth cleaned, but only twice a year and only during the month of April and November. You can get a prescription for your heart troubles between three in the morning and four in the afternoon, but only provided that you cartwheel into your pharmacy. Your covered in the event of bumping into a fellow pedestrian but only on the condition that you were wearing government approved eyeglasses at the time and had taken all the relevant relevant tests. Or something like that. Innovation doesn't happen in publicly funded hospital's because it's a political -mine field »to get involved in. Long-term sustainability will continue to depend upon American investment into Research and Development (and, of course, on our Canadian Doctor ex-patriates who are running south of the border for just these opportunities). opportunities). We'll continue to see long line-ups, and demands for increased spending (i.e. higher taxes). And a new batch of rules, regulations and controls will be unveiled, no doubt, with each upcoming year. That is, of course, unless we decide to look into some alternatives. Like a two-tier system. Think about it. After all, it's your health we're talking talking about. FROM PARLIAMENT H IL L Alex Shepherd The Unholy Alliance is, what Canadians saw last week when Stockwell Day's Canadian Alliance, formerly the ' Reform Party, climbed into bed with two former MPs who had represented the Bloc Québécois. Why is Stockwell Day allowing these men to run as candidates for the Bloc? I have some familiarity with one of them, Richard Belisle. He was chair of the Public Accounts Committee at the time I was vice-chair. , Traditionally the official opposition is appointed chair of that committee. At that time the Reform Party tried to have him çjected because he is a separatist. Now the Alliance can't wait for him to run for them. That's the difference a few years make as the Alliance lusts for power. Every Wednesday at 2 p.m. when business starts in the House all MPs sing O Canada. Belisle always walked out on this weekly tradition of singing our national anthem. Here's a quote from Mr. Belisle when he was a member member of the House of Commons, "Looking at this cynical and centralizing budget, budget, one stops wondering why a majority of Quebecers long for a sovereign Quebec." Of course this is the-rhetoric of the separatists. The reality is the majority of Quebecers , have no use for separation. How. can the Canadian Alliance reconcile having these people in their party? The short answer is simple. They have such a decentralized decentralized view of Canada they sèe nothing unusual about transferring transferring even, mûre power from Ottawa to the provinces, with the risk of eroding, even further, further, Canadian unity. Canada is the most decentralized decentralized co.untry in the world. More decentralization will relegate Ottawa to no more than a government handing over money on demand to the provinces. This isn't a vision of Canada that will see us last out the 21st century and I don't believe it is the vision of the majority of Canadians. Alberta, which is the province where the Canadian Alliance gets most of its support, support, is still miffed at the federal federal government's National Energy Policy. That policy sought a two-price system for oil, one for domestic consumption consumption and the other for international. That province has always had the attitude that Somehow the Government of Canada was robbing them even though, . over the years, through transfer payments Albertans had been allowed to share in Canada's wealth. Remember that it was Mulroney who gave Bouchard his stepping stone to become leader of the separatist separatist movement in Quebec. People like Belisle and Bouchard march to only one drummer which is the one beating out the rhythm of the separatist cause. If the Alliance has room for such an agenda then it can attract separatists. Canada has a promising future but it is a future united not fragmented. It is one where different levels of government government can be made more accountable to the public. People want less government government generally and more accountability. They want government taking less of their pay cheque and leaving more for their own decision making. These are all attainable attainable objectives but we must never equate these goals with dismantling our country, its traditions, or institutions. Alberta's destiny is within Canada as is Quebec's and all the other provinces and territories. territories. The fact that the Alliance doesn't share this belief is a cause for concern among all Canadians who have worked so hard at building building this country. 3 Pedicures/Manicures Waxing Nail Extensions Ear Candling Eyelash Tinting Air Brushing. 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