That’s apparently the Dalton Mcguinty approach to things. In the legislature this past week, it came out that the review, which was previously cancelled rather on the hush hush, ended up never actually being started to begin with. So all this time of saying Ontario’s government had things in hand with the investigation, they were primarily blowing smoke.

The article goes on to say their latest reasoning behind it was because the starting of that contract would have been a duplication of the auditor general’s efforts–funnily enough, the same reason they used to cancel it. Question of the day, from the opinionated fool: which lie is the real lie? Or does Dalton McGuinty expect tax payers to just buy whatever he spits out? Between Ignatieff and McGuinty, I’m having trouble seeing why anyone’s surprised at the number of elections, both provincially and federally, the liberal party of Canada hasn’t actually won.

Ontario’s government, under Dalton McGuinty, has let the Sudbury hospital situation slip just a touch out of controll. And, in fact, it’s not the only issue of its kind in the province–in fact, emergency room wait times are probably one of the biggest complaints against Ontario’s implementation of the healthcare system. It’s not a liberal versus conservative issue, however–British Columbia’s healthcare system, under Gordon Campbell’s government–also a liberal government, has significantly reduced those same emergency wait times in its own province. So what’s the difference between the two, and can people on both sides of the border learn from it?

Simply put, the difference is money. The BC government has committed more of its resources to fix its problems with the healthcare system than has Ontario at this point. And, while Ontario’s healthcare system is still a better alternative than is the system currently in the US, both can easily learn from what’s presently being done in BC. Ten hours’ wait in the emergency room, while still not anything to write home about, is still better than the average of twenty found in Ontario.

That having been said, emergency room wait times are not a Canadian healthcare issue, as evidenced by a study released in January of 2008 that noted emergency times south of the border were on the rise. Much the same as up north, general overcrowding and a shortage of resources is being blamed for the wait times. The only difference between the Canadian and American problems at this stage of the game is the many people who right now don’t have health insurance in the US–the very thing pro-healthcare advocates are critical about when it comes to their current system. A problem that can be, and is slowly being in some cases–like the case in British Columbia, delt with by increasing the amount of money dedicated to healthcare spending. Of course, it might also be helpful if the Ontario government maybe starts pulling some of that healthcare expense out of things that just plain aren’t working out.