Lottery could help pay for health care

Our health care in Canada is now on life support while the government rakes in millions just off its sale of lottery tickets. A doctor in Canada has to spend years and a substantial amount of money to get their medical license to be able to practice in this country. With finance minister Bill Morneau’s new tax attack on small business just might be the final nail that will encourage doctors to leave Canada and practice elsewhere.

Putting our already strained health-care systems into an even worse situation that they now try to manage under. If the government was transparent with all the revenue generated off its lottery sales each week with the amount it takes in and pays out. I am sure that with the difference the government rakes in each week off lottery ticket sales, there is sufficient money to pay for our health-care systems. Therefore eliminating the need for a new tax structure that puts an added strain and burden on doctors and small business in this country. Charles Owen, Welland