Niagara-on-the-Lake Local received the following letter to the editor from reader Alexander Evans. Do you have an opinion to share? Submit your letter to [email protected]
Let me first start off by saying I have nothing but respect and admiration for what nurses have gone through during this pandemic. I could not have done it myself.
But that’s not what I was addressing in a previous letter I wrote to The Local (which recently elicited a request from a nurse for an apology).
I was addressing the fact that nurses and their unions have been supporting public health care which has lead to disastrous outcomes. I’m not surprised that since the 1970s health care outcomes have been falling. That is about the time when we started making health care public — as such, yes, nurses and their unions are part of the problem.
Unless I’m mistaken and nurses and their unions have been advocating for privatizing healthcare.
Unless I’m mistaken and they aren’t advocating for the public system that is inherently designed to be “crumbling down around them.”
Unless I’m mistaken and nurses and their unions have been advocating for abolishing the Canada Health Act.
No apology will be forthcoming.
Alexander Evans, Niagara-on-the-Lake
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