Read todays Victoria Times Colonist editorial

There’s a great editorial in today Times Colonist entitled “MLAs need bigger role”. The following are just a few excerpts from it.

It's unfair to say that MLAs have spent the past eight months on holidays, even though the legislature hasn't met since June 3, 2010. But it's fair - and important - to ask why they accept such a diminished role….

Will these health care suggestions be popular??

Barbara Kaminsky is the Chairperson of the BC Healthy Living Alliance ... as well as being the CEO of the BC and Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society. I am going to start from the premise that she is well qualified to be in both of these positions, and therefore comments that she makes should be seriously considered.

That's why I found an article she had in the Vancouver Sun on Monday January 17^th of interest – the story was entitled, “Leadership is the key to decrease prevention.”

In this story she started of with a comment that pretty much all of us would agree on, that is that British Columbian's have health care pretty much at the top of our list of things important to us – in terms if services delivered by the government.

Were you aware that one third of BC's population, that have chronic disease, take up 80% of the costs of Pharmacare, payments to doctors, and hospital costs? -- I certainly wasn't until I read this article. With couples having less children, our population as a whole is ageing, which could have a serious effect on not only health care, but all services delivered by government.