[bulldogs]

I will be happy when Christ sets this all straight.

[Sgt_Schultze]

...Sex-change surgery is considered an essential service that is covered by medicare in most provinces when a patient has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the medical term for people who believe they are the wrong sex.

I believe I am in the wrong economic class. If I move to Canada, will they make me a millionaire?

[freedomcrusader]

In the meantime, people who work for a living have been waiting 6 months for truly essential services. Yep, this is the way the U.S. ought to go....NOT.

[Hodar]

"If the medical opinion is that sex reassignment surgery is an essential service for a particular inmate, it follows that it should be paid for by Correctional Services Canada, as would any other essential medical service," wrote Madam Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson of the Federal Court of Canada.

Gosh, how silly of me. I was under the impression that 'essential service' would mean something like heart bypass surgury, or something that would keep the prisoner alive; not something that someone really wants. I wonder if I can move to Canada, get a speeding ticket; and live in a mansion (I would really like that).

[Andyman]

Let's see, law-abiding cancer patients wait for months for surgeries . . . similar heart patients die waiting for surgeries . . . With one-sixth the population, Seattle has more MRI devices than all of British Columbia . . . American border hospitals have plenty of Canadian patients . . . but Canadian prisoners get state-sponsored sex changes.

Yeah, I guess Canadians are morally superior beings.

[dawn53]

My husband was a Canadian with permanent residency in the US. After 9/11 he got fed up, and applied for his US citizenship, so now he's an American.

Foolishness like this makes him so happy he finally got his US citizenship.

At the Naturalization Oath Ceremony, the INS admonished everybody to take a close look at their citizenship paperwork before they left the building. The INS spokesman said to check your birthday, the spelling of your name, etc. He said to pay special attention to the box where your "Gender" is marked.

His explanation to his caution was this, "If you happen to be male and the gender on your paperwork is stated as female, it would be easier to get a sex-change operation than to get the INS to change the paperwork."

[headsonpikes]

Canadian socialism is good for more laughs than American socialism.

I'll freely concede that. ;^)

[Dionysius]

"O Canada! I change my sex for thee!"

[sheik yerbouty]

"O Canada"!

[A2J]

And this is the place the liberdopians look to as an example of how the U.S. should be.

Go figure.