Assuming they don't print it, an open letter to the Edmonton Sun:

Though initially I was lost for words by the exceptionally flawed reasoning of your editorial board this morning, I still thought that I would take the gamble that your basic sense of logic might still overpower your partisanship:

The great success in the pilot project was in centreing resources on the patient and planning schedules and processes around the patient rather than strengthening the organisation. This could NOT have been achieved in a 'private' system. You have confused private with arms-length. For example: CN is Private; Via Rail is arms-length. A private organisation has one sole responsibility BY LAW: To its shareholders. Government's role has been the focus of perpetual debate and a myriad... sorry Sun editors, lots of ideas. This program personified the idea of the individualist-servant nature of government: That government is not supposed to be about process, but rather achieving individual results. A company trying to make money can never embrace this model as it would be bilking its shareholders out of thier hard-earned investments.

Now I'm sure you will completely miss the point of this letter, the context and economic analysis proferred and clap your heads over your ears with the same lack of decorum that you had when you asserted that the Grits were leading due to public drunkenness (Bravo...), but please, if you do decide to publish this letter have some sense of decorum and leave the cogent points intact instead of trying to pick the one you feel is weakeset without the logical support of the others and go from point 'A' to point 'B' instead of from point 'A' to point 'Vote Harper'

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease,

Sean Tisdall