Just last month, two televised debates gave Canadians a chance to see four federal party leaders discuss a series of topics. Affordability. Climate. Public safety. Tariffs. Immigration. One item not as much as in campaigns past was health care.

In our final campaign poll, only 11 per cent of Canadians identified health care as the most important issue facing the country, ranking it fourth on a list of concerns behind Canada-U.S. relations (26 per cent), housing, homelessness and poverty (21 per cent) and the economy and jobs (20 per cent).

Our collective views on medical services appear to be slowly improving. This month, more Canadians described the health-care system as “working well and needing only minor changes” (23 per cent, up four points since May 2024) than those who claimed it has “so much wrong with it that we need to completely rebuild it” (17 per cent, down six points). A majority of Canadians (56 per cent, up three........

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