Created: Jan. 19th
Gun Registration, for example. For a mere $1 000 000 000, they have protected me from the dangers of a farmer buying a shotgun and driving to the city to shoot me. Actually, I guess they didn't.... I suppose the criminals out there could always get their hands on an illegal gun... or they could buy one legally and scratch off the serial number... or when they shoot me they can walk off with the gun so the police can't use it to trace it back to him/her. But let's say that if the criminal actually does register his gun, shoots me, and then drops it for the police to pick up, he'll go to jail for 3 years (provided he/she's 19 or older). So it's all worth it.
The wiseness of the government is that they know where to allocate their spending. Instead of wasting 1 billion dollars to keep the poor above the poverty line (which I suppose theoretically could save thousands of lives, but that's not looking at the big picture), they instead spend it on this gun registration that could stop up to four murders (well, not stop them from happening, but making sure the killer does time.... probably)
Even if you disagree with me on how great gun registration is, you must agree our Health care is the best in the world. Canada is one of few places where you can do something absurdely stupid like handglide into a cliff, get into a fist fight with someone twice your size, or go on a huge bender and need to get your stomach pumped (that was me) and get treatment for free! That's what's great about Canada. Everyone puts money into a pool, and whoever manages to pull off the dumbest move gets all that money to make sure he doesn't learn his lesson :)
I've heard some great stories about Canadian Free Clinics. Apparantly, kids weren't allowed in Free Clinics to see their parents because they might contract SARS. It's a brilliant system: adults can come and go to the "disease potluck" as they please, but poor kids with their weak immune system better not get too close to that danger. Sadly, I could guess one flaw to this design:
