Everyone is rightly saying the right things about Jack Layton's disclosure of a health challenge. He joins the likes of Preston Manning, Allan Rock, and Max Keeping (a local TV news anchor here in Ottawa) who were very public with similar conditions.
My gender is traditionally quite reluctant to share details of what is often an uncomfortable issue. These gentlemen deserve our highest praise for opening up their health issues for all to see.
Quite the contrast with the situation involving the Premier from Newfoundland. Maybe someday, we will all understand why whatever procedure he had, could not have been done in Canada.
But in the absence of hard information, it is upsetting to see his situation being used by right wing American anti-health care activists as a 'poster case' for problems in Canada's health care system.
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