Half of those issues are provincial.
Canadian politics is the Spiderman meme with local, provincial and federal governments all pointing their fingers at each other.
If healthcare in your province sucks blame your Premier.
Canadian politics is the Spiderman meme with local, provincial and federal governments all pointing their fingers at each other.
If healthcare in your province sucks blame your Premier.
Coming at it from a separate angle, it would be quite a coincidence if it just so happened that every single province in the country, over decades, has had their healthcare systems failing in basically the same way with the same problems for end users, despite having totally different geographies, economies, even languages, run by all kinds of different provincial parties across the extremes of the political spectrum. The parsimonious explanation is that there's a systematic issue in Canadian Healthcare as it's defined or operates across the country.
It isn't though. These problems that are now being hard-felt in Toronto and Vancouver have plagued the Atlantic provinces for decades.
There is! It’s because healthcare is expensive and 20th century social democracy is out of fashion. Your premier can increase expenditures by improving healthcare infrastructure, or simply kick the can down the road for the next government to deal with. Many voters don’t like taxes or debt, so the latter is an easier sell.
Occasionally, the premier can roll a 20 on persuasion and suggest that it’s the Prime Minister’s problem too.
Now, the Prime Minister could look to changing the CHA and increasing services/taxes, but it’s probably too much of a can of worms to attempt to fix in our current political climate.