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COVID Exposed the Sorry State of Canada’s Health System, but Don’t Expect Reform

COVID Exposed the Sorry State of Canada’s Health System, but Don’t Expect Reform
An ICU nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Dec. 4, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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Apparently the COVID pandemic has revealed the manifest deficiencies of our socialized medicine. We’ve endured massive lockdowns, including among the worst suspensions of in-person schooling anywhere, because of the shrivelled fragility of world-famous-in-Canada “medicare,” which must now be reformed…  provided nothing changes.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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