Dental prepare is kick in enamel in which carbon tax should really go

Canada’s new dental program is a kick in the teeth

Apparently 1.7 million uninsured seniors have registered for Canada’s new multi-billion dollar dental advantage strategy billed as “free.”

Intended to address oral wellbeing care for people with an annual family income of beneath $70,000, it’s set to commence in early May perhaps for all those aged 70 as well as.

The truth is that it’s like pulling teeth to get any particulars about what is protected in this strategy from either the governing administration or any of the 30,500 dental care gurus in this nation.

A modest-profits pensioner, I’ve paid visits to two dentists in the initially four months of this yr, (just one a standard observe dentist and the other a periodontist). Neither intend to indicator up for the new plan. The result — I’m even now predicted to pay out a thousand bucks or far more per year in out-of-pocket expenses for dental care.

It would seem 61 for each cent of dentists surveyed very last thirty day period by their provincial associations indicated that they will not signal contractual agreements with the government’s new dental insurance coverage program.

Evidently the new method covers only some varieties of dental function and reimburses dental health and fitness treatment suppliers at a decrease price than service fees proposed by the a variety of dental associations. To prime it all off, the 2024 Canadian Dental Treatment Strategy guide even now has not been posted.

I can only conclude that the Liberal governing administration and their NDP allies have bitten off a lot more than they can chew. Clearly, their dental program is an sick-conceived system without any teeth. May well the Drive of the Fangs be with you evermore.

Victoria Adams

Victoria

Follow the U.S. direct with council shell out raises

Victoria councillors have voted to request the province to decrease councillors of the burden of deciding their price of fork out. This will undoubtedly involve additional surveys and scientific studies and consultations.

There is a more rapidly and easier way to conclusion the hand-wringing that normally accompanies this training. It is the most the latest modification to the U.S. Structure, adopted in 1992, concerning the payment of senators and customers of the Residence of Reps.

This is the whole textual content of the 27th amendment: “No regulation, varying the compensation for the companies of the Senators and Representatives, shall get result, right until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”

It does not get easier than that. I really do not feel we should adhere to the American illustration in quite a few means, but this one is a beacon of clarity and fairness.

It doesn’t subject no matter whether the spend is set by elected officials, a specific fee, a courtroom of regulation, or throwing a dart at a record of numbers the new price of pay back arrives into influence right after the up coming election.

There’s a single component of this we must not emulate. The U.S. Congress took much more than 202 several years to ratify this modification. That is a file for amendments, forward of the runner-up (at the rear of, truly) by much more than 199 several years.

I hope the metropolis and province can do much better than that.

George Jamieson

Victoria

Extra ideas to ponder about Victoria

I ponder why city planners are laying down significant concrete curbs for bicyclists alongside completely very good roadways, so targeted visitors would be fully snarled for unexpected emergency automobiles to commence if an earthquake or disaster did hit.

And why we really do not use reflective paint on the streets to make lanes visible in the course of a rainstorm at night?

Why are lovable very little concrete medians are set up concerning lanes, when a broader lane here and there would be safer?

Why do bicycle lanes just all of a sudden close, or just instantly start out on a whim on some streets? Why are new curbs along bicycle lanes not all rolled?

Why are there so lots of potholes? Why does a parked car get ticketed mainly because the bumper is a single foot more than a red or yellow painted curb?

Why can a neighbour establish a sixplex beside homes that have been in a single-family residential location for 60 decades and there is currently not ample parking.

So lots of points to speculate about.

Shirley McGowan

Victoria

Just put the carbon tax income into standard accounts

Whomever made the carbon tax designed a single mistake or two.

First, the carbon tax ought to be one way, with no returns to the taxpayers. The tax money need to go into the government financial institutions to pay out down the financial debt which is huge.

Just administrating the return cheques is a big expense to us taxpayers, of course we pay for that, maybe $10-15 for every cheque or more. Why was the tax developed with a smaller return cheque?

This tends to make the particular person acquiring the cheque “feel” that we are having a thing for almost nothing from the government, so now we need to vote for that party, to maintain getting additional revenue from the government.

The return funds was a providing position for the authorities to simplicity us into accepting the tax and continue to vote for them.

I think a lot of Canadians would settle for the tax if it only went to pay out down the debt and not hire hundreds to administrate the sending of cheques to make us feel excellent.

We are not that silly, are we?

J.I. Hansen

North Saanich

Beware these unintended consequences

The NDP government’s laws to “allow arrest for faculty disruptions” may well have unintended consequences adversely impacting their union supporters.

How will the laws be used if academics and/or aid unions impede general public access to schools or make other disruptions, in connection with a legal strike or illegal wildcat walkout?

Don Graham

Chemainus

Many thanks for the bouquets, Saanich parks staff

A lot of many thanks to Saanich parks workers’ thoughtfulness. The other day when I was at the Cedar Hill rec centre I discovered that exterior the entrance door there was a incredibly big bucket of h2o, chockablock complete of daffodils for the taking, slash for the duration of the study course of their gardening workday.

I came property with my bicycle laden and experienced hardly manufactured a dent in the big yellow ball of sunshine.

So I thank you for making this outdated duck very pleased!

Anne (Hertzberg) Christensen

Victoria

Let school buses block far more lanes of the highway

Is it not probable for bus motorists to end and position the college bus diagonally on two-lane streets to block each sides while students disembark safely off the bus?

I believe it can be carried out quickly more than enough to permit the driver to have on to the subsequent stop without as well substantially visitors disruption.

No matter whether or not they could get an exemption from laws that restrict the legality of it, I consider it appears like a uncomplicated solution to hold the little ones harmless.

Norm Kemp

Saanich

Retired doctor praises Royal Jubilee Medical center

I am a retired family health practitioner. I was not too long ago admitted by ambulance to the Royal Jubilee Hospital.

From the crisis responders to the medical center staff members (nurses, medical practitioners, porter, aides) my treatment was considerably over my expectations. The wellbeing-treatment method at the Jubilee is alive and well.

Staff members are compassionate and helpful. The therapy was thoughtful and prompt.

Many thanks to all the health and fitness-treatment employees at the Jubilee Clinic in Victoria.

Suzanne Longpre

Victoria

B.C.’s professional medical system desires to be set

On March 7, I endured extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing. I known as 911 and I was taken by ambulance to the Royal Jubilee Medical center the place I was admitted.

In depth diagnostics ended up carried out, and it was resolved there would be medical procedures. I was informed that the technique would take place on March 19, or possibly March 20, 21, 22 or 23, or finally March 24.

On March 24, while waiting for surgical procedures, I was informed that it would not just take area that day. I was rebooked for March 27. At the scheduled time, I was told that it was delayed all over again it was ultimately cancelled. Ultimately, it was slated for March 29.

The medical procedures happened on March 29 and I was discharged on April 1. I was at the medical center for 24 days for a process that normally demands a brief time in the medical center.

I realize the dilemma was the accessibility to the operating rooms and availability of staff, that there are simply not sufficient operating rooms or team to fulfill the surgical prerequisites.

I am thankful to the medical center team who do a exceptional position underneath incredibly difficult ailments. I am grateful to the excellent medical doctors, nurses and assistants who go over and outside of to ensure the very well-getting of clients and make do with the readily available methods.

Nevertheless, there ought to be much better strategies to administer our valuable and confined healthcare method. There ought to be sufficient and necessary funding delivered so that our professional medical method will be available to all in their crucial health care needs in a timely fashion.

Roger Cyr

Victoria

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