Health workforce, toxic drug crisis on health critics’ agendas this winter

Conservative health critic Dan Mazier says an upcoming committee report on immigration and health care will include ‘damning evidence’ that will surprise people.

Conservative health critic Dan Mazier, left, says a key focus for him during the winter sitting is the proximity of some supervised injection sites to places frequented by children, while NDP health critic Gord Johns says he’ll be vocal on issues including mental health and pharmacare. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY TESSIE SANCI

January 26, 2026

As MPs return to the Hill, federal health critics say they will focus on the need to improve Canada’s health workforce crisis, with Conservative health critic Dan Mazier saying that a Health Committee report outlining the obstacles faced by thousands of physicians to becom...

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