>>> Dennis Menard on NAFTA 
 WE> Let them.  Now if they said 'gimme or will take -your- ball and go
 WE> home.'
 DM> Yes; that's been done too.  But there's little one can do when the
 DM> only law recognized by a superpower is it's own 
You could try crying NIMBY.
 WE> The sun never sets on the British Empire?  Now here's my plan.  Briton
 WE> obtains a colony in the land of the midnight sun and Briton obtains a
 WE> colony down under again in the other land of the midnight sun.
 DM> :)  Yes; that's been done.  However, it doesn't address the longevity
 DM> of the empire, does it?
Hey, a little chunk of the British empire within the arctic circle and 
another bit within the antarctic circle could be merely frozen assets.  
That's all it'd take as long as the ice caps didn't melt. -)
 
 DM> Medical Association seems to have assumed the same general position
 DM> as its U.S. counterpart regarding Preemies.  What is different is the
 DM> public medical system in Canada vs the private one in the U.S.
 WE> What?  I thought you have a one payer health care system.  How does
 WE> this make a difference about treating of premies?
 DM> Concern about costs is effectively made irrelevant; there is no extra
 DM> money to be made by hospitals using heroic, or special, measures
 DM> keeping lives of questionable viability alive.
Oh, so the doctor, not motivated by money, is motivated by leisure time and 
so premie's had just better show up on week days only??
 
 DM> A few months ago, a doctor (New Brunswick, I think) was charged with
 DM> MURDER of one of her patients (ie, a mercy-killing).  I've heard
 DM> nothing recently. I'll see if I can do a follow-up.
 
 WE> Our famed doctor has been charged many times and they couldn't find a
 WE> jury that would convict him.
 DM> Yes; but Kervorkian worked "outside" the medical community, did he
 DM> not?  The case in New Brunswick involved a doctor treating her patient
 DM> in hospital. 
You mean Kervorkian would have no trouble doing his thing in Canada?
... Both atheists and theists think too much about god.
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