A prescription for a healthier Canada: upgrading our universal health-care system

The federal government has the tools to act by reducing administrative burdens, expanding coverage, and ensuring programs are delivered fairly across the country.

If our public health-care system was a house, there are cracks in the foundation, missing appliances, and too many Canadians without a key to the front door, writes Gord Johns. Pexels photograph by Towfiqu Barbhuiya

Opinion

BY NDP MP GORD JOHNS

April 22, 2026

Our universal health-care system is a point of pride for Canadians.

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