When do we admit Canada’s health care system just isn’t working?
COVID-19 has tested the limits of health care systems all around the world, but few have proven quite as fragile as ours, which is why Canadians have again been forced to lock down nearly two years into the pandemic. Schools are closing again, strict capacity limits are coming back, restaurants are being shuttered and Quebeckers are once more being subjected to an illogical and inequitable curfew. And it’s all happening in the name of protecting our health care system – something about which Canadians are fiercely proud and unyieldingly protective, but which hovers on the cusp of crisis even in the best of times.