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We hit a bully who didn't hit us. We destroyed a lot more of their country than bin Laden did ours. The actual sponsors of 9/11 got a free pass, and I do mean the Saudis. We spent hundreds of billions of dollars to make a stretch of sound only slightly more worthless than it was before.

I'm beginning to get the impression that the term "bad investment" is meaningless to our leaders.

the patriot act dosesnt cover medical records... It DOES cover bank accounts, at great length I might add. there are over 137 pages in the Patriot act, and after reading it, ALL of it, I found nothing that would make me all that upset as a private citizen that obeys the law. now if I were a bad-guy or at least evading taxes, well, I might be worried.

As far as Iraq and our troops go, a larger military would be a wonderful tradeoff for not having gone over there, but at the rate bases are being closed.... that is unlikely to happen.

One thing the patirot act did make possible, now that I think of it, is federal money for fire and police training and equiptment. that was a good thing. (yes I know that there are some cases of abuse, but thats not the norm) But there is a downside to the Fedral emergency assistance agreements that are now signed by the states, and the local FDs, PDs, Special teams, etc have to adhear to the states response policies as well. Most of us in the fire service, anyhow, dont mind going to the next county, even the next state to help in a disaster.... but those agreements can allow the feds to basicaly "draft" us into service if the need arises.... I DONT care for that.
The best example is the small pox vaccinations. Those of us in the "first responder" arena (police, rescue, fire, EMS) were offered the vaccinations if we had not had them, and could take them. No cost, well the not in money.... The catch was that in the event of a small pox outbreak, the govt could come swooping in and take us to the affected area to deal with the situation. (I didnt get the shot because my mother had just had cancer surgery, and her DR recomended that I not take the chance of the vaccination area 'weeping" and causeing her problems as a result.) I know that the feds value the military over the local responders. We ALL know it. Local juristictions are expendiable. Because of that new and I have to admit frightening mindset, our military wont be growing anytime soon.....

Then in what regards can my Provincial government sell confidential medical information to the US?

This just gets deeper and deeper.

im not sure what the laws in Canada are in reference to medical information. If it is being sold that transaction would fall under Canada's laws as the medical records are under the juristiction of the place they are held.

can you be more specific in refrence to this? Im not familiar with US companies buying Canadian citizens med records.... That, if as I understand it to be, is alarming.

Health is under Provincial Jurisdiction. I think it is also a shared cost program which means that both the Federal Government and Provincial Government pay 50% of the cost. For BC the Federal Government pays 15% but that is another story.

The provincial government of BC (which I never liked anyway), did sell confidential information to some US Insurence companies and blamed it on the Patriot Act. I disliked the selling of it no matter what the causes were and now that I find out that they didn't have to makes this into quite a large conspiracy. However, the health minister did resign for "undisclosed reasons," 3 years ago so this is old news.

It is a crime to release confidential information.
But Laws never stop politicians in the first place.

WOW! sold the info? That is no good. the partior act, as far as I could tell from reading it, doesnt cover that at all.... Still, medical info should never be sold or given out with out concent.... was anything done about this?