Here's a pleasant flash from modern Canada.

We have to wait sixteen months for a hip replacement, but we're more than happy let hundreds of refugees with AIDS (many of them gays) into the country to leech off of our failing public health care system.  Yep, that's wonderful.  The Minister thinks it's a wonderful example of "compassion."  Well, perhaps it is compassionate for some.  But I don't see what makes it "compassionate" to ensure that World War Two veterans are made to queue up for care, while some Third Worlder sucks up his health care.