• Canada’s Healthcare system deteriorated significantly during the trying years of Covid mismanagement and unscientific mandates. Many Canadians now do not even have a family doctor and waiting lists for surgeries etc. are far too long.


• Canada needs to rehire and compensate doctors and nurses fired for refusing the experimental vaccines.


• Canada needs to speed up the process of certifying foreign-born doctors and nurses, while maintaining high standards.


• More emphasis should be placed on preventive care and alternative medicine.


• The CHP would shorten waiting lists by defunding abortion, assisted suicide (MAiD) and “gender re-assignment” surgeries. Those dollars would be directed to real health care (hips and hearts).


• The CHP would also shorten wait-times by allowing more private delivery options.


• The CHP would insist that new hospitals incorporate features to limit the spread of hospital-borne infections.


• The CHP upholds the right of Canadians to choose natural health products.


• The CHP would stop The Self-Care Framework and repeal Sections 500-504 of Bill C-47.

Our Canadian Healthcare system, once envied by many in other countries, is in serious need of an overhaul. In a 2023 national survey, more than one in five Canadians—an estimated 6.5 million people—did not have a family physician or nurse practitioner they see regularly.

In 2023, the median wait time from a general practitioner (GP) referral to treatment was 27.7 weeks.

“In 2023, physicians report a median wait time of 27.7 weeks between a referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment. This represents the longest delay in the survey’s history and is 198% longer than the 9.3 weeks Canadian patients could expect to wait in 1993.”

Canadians could expect to wait 6.6 weeks for a CT scan, 12.9 for an MRI scan, and 5.3 weeks for an ultrasound.”

Under Canada’s single-payer plan, the insurer—the federal government—sets the standards for care. The Canadian system imposes de facto rationing of urgently-needed health care, thus the lengthy wait-times.

Competition to provide medical care, like competition in the marketplace, creates the drive to perform better. Restricting the delivery of healthcare services to public facilities is a strategy to protect the turf of public service unions. More private options will increase innovation—both saving money and improving service. Allowing both public and private (for profit) healthcare delivery creates a competitive environment where all parties seek to excel. It reduces wait times and costs, while retaining a single-payer insurance concept (the way the Canadian system was originally designed) to ensure universal access.

Private healthcare is already available for such services as X-Rays and bloodwork. There has been much fear mongering over private health-care but the reality is that adding more service providers and more locations can only shorten waiting times for all.

More Doctors and Nurses Needed!

Everyone recognizes the severe shortage of doctors and nurses in Canada today. While thousands of Canadians wait for life-saving treatments, Canada’s overworked health-care system pays billions for medically unnecessary procedures such as abortions and sex-change operations. This is clearly a case of misplaced priorities.

In addition, large numbers of medical personnel were either fired or forced out during the terrible handling of the Covid crisis. These should be rehired and compensated for their unjust treatment.

The CHP would also remove red tape and speed up the process of certifying foreign-born doctors and nurses, while maintaining high medical standards.

Better Hospitals

Some of our hospitals are not healthy places for patients or visitors. “More than 200,000 patients get infections every year while receiving healthcare in Canada and more than 8,000 of these patients die as a result. About 8% of children and 10% of adults in Canadian hospitals have a hospital acquired infection (HAI) at any given time.”

The CHP would lead the way nationally by encouraging an immediate shift to newer and healthier hospitals using our Infrastructure Renewal Policy to fund these projects.

The best hospital design is one that stems the spread of infectious viruses, limits medical mistakes and facilitates good care. Based on the research of California-based think tank the Center for Health Design, the solutions are to be found in such mundane features as single rooms with individual toilets for all patients, ample hand-washing stations, non-porous fixtures, standardized surgical rooms and quieter floor materials. The extra costs of single-room designs are typically recouped in just a few years. “We will never build another hospital with multi-bedded wings,” says renowned U.S. hospital architect Derek Parker. “They’re expensive, there’s no privacy, and they’re intrusive.”

Promote Healthier Lifestyle Choices

When it comes to healthcare, the CHP would place a much greater emphasis on disease prevention, through public education programs to increase awareness of the health risks of smoking and drugs (including vaping), obesity, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity and perversion, and of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect, the two most common (and preventable) birth defects.

It is clear that our healthcare system is sick and needs emergency care. It is not enough to acknowledge the problem, we must also seek and implement remedies to the problem.

Some healthcare problems have been created through government policies that have proven to be detrimental to our health. Abortion, MAiD and the legalization of cannabis have all been injurious to Canadians. CHP Canada would eliminate funding for abortion and MAiD and re-criminalize street drugs. Instead of “safe injection sites,” the CHP would provide proper treatment for drug addicts and punish pushers, cartels and gangs.

Canada’s healthcare system can once again become the envy of the world but it will take bold action! The CHP is ready to take the lead!

Updated: April 21, 2025