Children’s health care is the foundation of a healthy Canada

Right-sizing children’s health care and advancing a National Children’s Strategy is nation-building work.

Secretary of State for Children and Youth Anna Gainey. If Canada is serious about stabilizing and sustaining health-care systems, we must start with children, write Emily Gruenwoldt and Katharine Smart. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY EMILY GRUENWOLDT, KATHARINE SMART

February 11, 2026

Across Canada, the start of a new year brings familiar signs of strain across our health-care systems. Emergency departments are overcrowded, wait times and costs are rising, and workforce shortages persist. Governments respond with new investments, yet the pressure remains....

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