Here are two major ways Canada can significantly increase its supply of family doctors

The federal government can enhance funding to the Medical Council of Canada to asses foreign doctors, and provinces can boost investment to increase their output of graduating physicians.

Federal and provincial/territorial health ministers can work to solve the physician shortage in Canada in a cost-effective manner by enhancing the PRA route to licensure, write ISG Senators Stanley Kutcher, Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, and Ratna Omidvar; and Kareem El-Assal. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, ISG SENATOR MOHAMED-IQBAL RAVALIA, RATNA OMIDVAR, KAREEM EL-ASSAL

February 12, 2025

Canada’s health-care system is in crisis. About 6.5 million Canadians currently do not have a family doctor, and wait times to access many types of specialists are unacceptably long. Some international medical school graduates have graduated from foreign medical schools bu...

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