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CANADA, HOW MUCH OF YOUR TAX $ GOES TOWARD HEALTH CARE?

"In 1995, then-finance minister Paul Martin, desperate to turn around Canada’s debt problems, slashed the health and social transfer by 20 per cent, followed by a 15 per cent cut in 1996. Some provinces have said their health systems have never recovered."


It's complicate but comes down to $ and accountability.


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The federal government has a dismal track record with software.


"It had "failed to properly pay nearly half of Canada's workforce of public servants, representing 153,000 people. The report added that the system, whose original 2009 budget was $309-million, had already cost taxpayers $954-million and could rise to $2.2 billion by 2023 in unplanned costs."

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