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Terence Corcoran: Canada needs a new national health-care commission

Former investment executive Tony Fell launches campaign to replace silence with solutions.

Almost a quarter century ago the former head of RBC-Dominion Securities, Tony Fell, delivered a grim assessment of Canada’s national health-care system under the Canada Health Act. In a speech at the Canadian Club in Toronto, titled “Healthcare at the Cossroads,” Fell ran through a long list of inadequacies, failures, challenges and funding problems. His 2002 speech could be delivered at any club meeting today.

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Among the crossroad issues — Fell resisted calling them crises — were doctor and nurse shortages, emergency room backups, shortages of medical equipment, cancer surgery wait times of up to two months, along with average national wait times for an MRI hitting 12 weeks.

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