Wait times getting shorter, but critics say strategy too narrow
Lines for priority services are getting shorter in most provinces, but critics say the federal government's current strategy of focusing the provinces and territories on guaranteeing wait times for only one procedure each is too narrow in scope.
Three years ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that his newly-minted Conservative government would make due on an election promise to "tame the queue" of Canadians waiting for medical procedures.
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