An ambulance drives past the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on June 15, 2023. The Canadian Press/David Lipnowski
Commentary
Canadians are proud of their universal health-care system. Politicians hold it up as proof of our compassion, while unions fight to preserve it and judges unfailingly defend it. But pride and rhetoric can’t mask reality: Canada spends more on health care than almost any other country in the world and delivers some of the worst results. Our hospitals are overloaded, wait times are intolerable, and tens of thousands of patients die each year before receiving the treatment they need.
