   [Canada] What do you think of Harper's latest talk about cancer?
  Stephen Harper promised this morning to develop a nation wade cancer repository.linky if you haven't read it already.The proposal is to put 250 million dollars to make a computer system for keeping records of cancer patients and treatments and allowing doctors to share their experiences with each other.A national cancer database is a good idea in my opinion, but his "promise" is just plain stupid. We already have many of such databases in hospitals (although there's no unique national one) and finding and sharing information has been taking place on these systems all the time.This amount of money is either too much, or too small, depending on how you look at it.If he's promising just the development and maintenance of the system, it's too much money.If he's promising a full research network for researching cancer treatment, it's not enough money (have in mind it's a 5 year plan) and redundant.To me, this sounds like a completely empty promise. Unless someone can convince me that this money is necessary and sufficient for doing this program.   
  I think that a Conservative making promises regarding healthcare that don't have anything with privatizing it to hell and gone is completely strange and scary. What's next, Jack backing the USA on climate change?   ;  Yeah, if you think the liberals can screw things up, I don't even want to think of how bad harper could do. I've seen nothing to suggest that any of his ideas are going to make things better, normal hotair"We'll cut taxes AND provide more services, yeah, that will work!" only, I'm not seeing any 'more' from him, only a whole lot of 'less'linky!;  Talroth: Of course you're not seeing more out of him. You're not big business.   ;  When you're surrounded by pol-sci students on a day to day basis in the nations capital, you can't be anything but skeptical of all sides. To be honest, it would be nice if such a thing were already in place; even world wide. I don't see why cancer should be the only one, the world has plenty of other problems.   