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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by bennettnate5 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:14PM (#37029228)
> More conservative provinces have worse wait times.

This feels like a pretty glaring generalization. If we look at the actual data, the story becomes a little more nuanced [1]. "Conservative" provinces have wait times that are a couple of days to a couple of weeks higher than national average (assuming we call BC, AB, SK and MB "conservative" [2]), but then again almost all of the maritimes provinces (which are considered strongly liberal-leaning) have abysmally bad wait times relative to the average (10-20 weeks worse).

Overall, the average is ~half a year anyways, which is pretty rough regardless.

[1] - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/file/waiting-your-turn-2021-... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election, "Results by province and territory

Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by wredue on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:41AM (#37033617)
AB, SK and MB are conservative with high rates of Trump flags.

And nice lies dude. They all have over double the national average!

Don’t use Fraser institute for sources. They are a far right “think” tank. If they posted it, it’s a lie or misrepresentation.