The erosion of Canada\u0027s competitiveness is reflected in its health\u002Dcare system
The cost of public health insurance for the average Canadian has increased over 100 per cent since 1997, according to the Fraser Institute. We spend 11 per cent of our GDP on health care, more than 27 other comparable countries. But among advanced OECD countries, we are 31 out of 34 in acute care beds per thousand population, 26 out of 31 in medical doctors and 17 out of 32 in nurses.
The problem of Canadian health care is compounded by the fact that for many years, in our often desperate ambition to differentiate ourselves from the Americans, Canadians took refuge in the belief that we had comprehensive, affordable health care and revelled in fantastic stories of medical emergencies being denied transit by ambulance in the U.S. when an afflicted party could not produce a credible credit card.
We remain one of the most resources-rich countries in the world, but in our political faddishness and naivete, we are captivated by the nonsense that our resources are something to be ashamed of and that must not be exploited. Our forest industries are deemed to be an assault upon climate stability and our mining industries a pollutant, and both are frequently violators of the ever-vocal sensibilities of Indigenous people.
It is all of a piece: even as the former international centres of climate alarm stand down and acknowledge that doomsday scenarios are not about to occur, we make war on our energy industry and tyrannize our consumers out of a terminal official addiction to virtue-signalling, gaslighting and moralistic kabuki theatre about Canada’s minuscule carbon footprint.
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