Canada`s wait times break new record - 21.2 weeks: Fraser Institute
(WorldNews Canada)

Canadians waiting for medical attention are faced with record-breaking wait times – and it doesn’t appear to be getting any better, according to the Fraser Institute. The research think-tank released a new report Thursday, Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017, and found the median wait time in 2017 is 21.2 weeks – the longest ever recorded. By comparison, Canadians waited 9.3 weeks in 1993 when the Institute first started reporting on wait times for medical treatments. The Toronto Sun spoke with the Baccus Barua, the report’s author and associate director of health policy studies at the Fraser Institute. Why are wait times the longest reported...