As I was standing at 7 am, with about 200 other people, in a dingy and poorly lit hallway, waiting for the doors to open to give us access to the glorious Ontario healthcare a la 2009, I was thinking to myself: I just forked out another $900 last year to make our healthcare system better and faster, shorten wait times and whatever else was promised to us, and here we are, herded like cattle in a small hallway waiting for “the system” to serve us better. We were out at about 10:30. Just to do some bloodwork. Three and a half hours! Some of us have to get back to work, you know. That’s three and a half hours of waiting, staring at walls and feeling sorry for little old ladies with canes and walkers who also have to stand around for three and a half hours, because there are about 20 seats for the 200 people arriving every day.

And I was left wondering: does Dalton McGuinty stand in a hallway like this when he has to do some bloodwork? Does he get up at 6 am and arrive at work at around 11? Doesn’t he get sick and need some bloodwork done once in a while?