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1. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

   According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

2. New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, December 16, 2020 Here’s a sobering thought. Before, during and most likely after the COVID pandemic, New Brunswickers will likely continue to face long wait times for medically necessary health-care procedures. ...

3. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

   Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed ...

4. McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, September 19, 2020 As uncertainty over COVID continues, no one knows when things will be “normal” again. For patients in Nova Scotia, however, a return to normalcy will mean a return to the same overburdened ...

5. The ‘other’ health-care crisis damaging our economy—every year

   Appeared in the National Post, May 9, 2020 The COVID pandemic has devastated Canada’s economy and the recovery will be long and uncertain. However, another health-care crisis has been hurting Canadians, and the country’s economic productivity, for years ...