[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).

[canuck_conservative]

In Canada these days, you can get the taxpayers to foot the bill for a lot of your stuff, as long as you can meet one simple test: you have to prove you (and people like you) have been "historically discriminated against". Thus, men, heterosexuals, and whites are all S.O.L.

For everyone else, it's open season on the Canadian treasury.