Canada’s health-care crisis is fuelled by too little public spending, not too much

The federal government must substantially increase public health-care funding, financed by a fairer tax system that asks more from those who can most afford it.

During last year’s election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged $1.4-billion for family medicine, but there was no money allocated in his first federal budget, writes Danyaal Raza. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade