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1. Provinces should ask for more health-care freedom—not more money

   Canada already ranked among the highest health-care spenders in the world before the pandemic. ...

2. More money for health care—careful what you wish for

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star, December 19, 2019 Despite their differences, it seems Canada’s premiers are united on one thing—demanding more federal health-care dollars. At last week’s meeting of the Council of the Federation, the 13 premiers “ reiterated ...

3. Ford health-care plan falls well short of what's needed

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, March 6, 2019 Last week, the Ford government finally lifted the veil on The People's Health Care Act, which includes changes to how health care will be organized in Ontario. Specifically, the bill formalizes the government ...

4. Ontario no longer has shortest health-care wait times in Canada

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, December 5, 2018 Sadly, long wait times for medical treatment have defined the Canadian health-care system for many years. Long waits visit a wide range of harms upon Canadians including unnecessary pain and suffering, lost ...

5. Alberta should look to France, Germany and Australia to improve its health-care system

   The office of the auditor general of Alberta recently delivered a report on the province’s expensive but underperforming health-care system. During an interview, the auditor general (Merwan Saher) rhetorically asked reporters “You are ...

6. Ontario budget includes short-sighted health-care spending promises

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, May 7, 2017 With its recent budget, the Ontario government promised increased health-care spending and “free” prescription drugs. Sadly for Ontarians, these short-sighted feel-good promises will only increase the bill for ...

7. Mo money, mo health-care problems

   The classic song “Mo Money Mo Problems” by late rapper Notorious B.I.G. is a fitting way to describe the current state of federal health transfers from Ottawa to the provinces. As federal transfers have grown over the past decade, Canada ...

8. Minister Philpott should stand firm on federal health transfers

   As we head deeper into the fall, and Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s self-imposed year-end deadline to negotiate a new health accord with the provinces approaches, the chorus of provincial health ministers begging for more money ...

9. On health-care reform, Trudeau should finish what Chretien started

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 22, 2016 In the 1990s, Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Liberals reduced the amount of money it sent to the provinces to help fund provincial welfare programs but, in return, gave the provinces greater freedom to design ...

10. Less Ottawa, More Province: How Decentralization Is Key to Health Care Reform

    Despite high levels of public spending, Canada’s health-care system consistently performs more poorly than a number of peer jurisdictions with universal health-care systems. Governments across the country must address this policy challenge in a context of ...