The public health system as a whole is trash here too unless you live in or around one of the major cities. So many people have to travel thousands of kilometers just to get treatment for anything serious because the hospitals in their areas suck so much cock.
yeah, in some parts of Canada, you can't even get a family doctor/primary care physician for love or money. All because the Galaxy Smoothbrain Chretien/Martin Liberals thought it would be a great idea to not let so many people train to be doctors back in the early 1990s, in order to save money on paying said doctors when they became full fledged doctors. Now with the boomers getting into their 70s and all the boomer doctors retiring, we have a severe shortage that won't be filled anytime soon, as doctors' pay isn't really all that great and their costs are astronomical.
I imagine importing large quantities of barely competent doctors originating from and trained in some shithole in Africa or the Middle East was a contributing factor in making this decision, being a scheme carried out by the Liberal Party and all (as I'm sure you know they love importing future voters). There are raghead doctors in my rural hometown who are legally not qualified to get a job in the cities but are good enough for us yokels I guess!
strangely enough, for the longest time, if a person was a doctor in another country but then immigrated to Canada, unless they were immigrating from someplace like USA or Great Britain, could not be a doctor in Canada (not without retraining anyway). I guess they changed this, but when?
It had to have been sometime in the 80s or 90s because we have had a revolving door of these worthless glorified drug pushers in our neck of the woods since I was a kid. It could also perhaps be the case that there were/are exceptions made for these laws given the extreme demand for doctors in the more rural areas.
I would wager on sometime in the 90s, as I knew a family from Eastern Europe who escaped to Canada and the dad was a doctor but couldn't be one in Canada and couldn't afford retraining, and that was in the late 80s.
Homelessness is tied to mental health here too but also drug addiction; there's some overlap as many people on drugs are trying to self-medicate for their (undiagnosed or diagnosed) mental disorders. If a person is on "disability", then medications are paid for; but there are some meds that are not covered. I think Methadone is covered, though.
You can get free "heroin" from the BC government now if referred to the program by a doctor. They even have a vending machine that scans your hand to identify if you're part of the program, and then dispenses your drugs and associated paraphernalia. To be clear, I don't think it's actually heroin but rather dilaudid that is dispensed from the machine.... but it's a strong opioid so it's an easy transition from heroin (dilaudid is perhaps less euphoric than heroin but close enough for the junkies to stay healthy).
the hospital at least in my area sorta goes between using dilaudid and morphine as IV/pill-based painkillers for people who are in a lot of pain. Having had both (at different surgeries), I'm not a big fan of hydromorph (dilaudid), and I assume there's some people that feel the same way. The premier was trying to get the hard shit decriminalized so that he could give away free actual heroin to junkies (not simply a sub like hydromorph or methadone).
This should answer your questions. It works a little differently in Canada. But yes, he could still plea bargain
This should answer your questions. It works a little differently in Canada. But yes, he could still plea bargain
Plea Deals: When can a judge refuse to go along with a joint recommendation for sentence? - Vernon
Plea agreements between the defence and Crown are common place and happen all the time. This is when an accused person agrees to waive their right to a trial and plead guilty early in exchange for the Crown agreeing to ask for a specific sentence. Often times this is done by way of a “joint subm ...criminallawyervernonbc.com
