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Canada’s public health agency still working to adopt WHO pandemic treaty: report

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

The Public Health Agency of Canada is reportedly still working to implement the WHO’s global pandemic treaty, which critics have warned would give the globalist entity increased power over the country in the event of another ‘pandemic.’

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is reportedly still working out the final details for the implementation of the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty despite significant warnings from experts that it would undermine national sovereignty.  

According to information published November 15 by The Counter Signal, the PHAC, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, is still negotiating the final details of the WHO’s global pandemic treaty, officially called the “Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response accord,” which critics have warned would give the globalist-minded organization increased power over Canada in the event of another “pandemic” or other so-called emergencies.

“The Pandemic Agreement is still under development,” the agency said in response to an order paper question submitted by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis which was obtained by The Counter Signal.  

The PHAC also reportedly revealed that they are considering changing Canadian law in an effort to implement the agreement.   

“As negotiations progress, the Government of Canada will continue to carefully consider its potential impact on our existing domestic laws, policies, and practices and if there is a need to make changes at the domestic level to implement our international obligations,” the agency wrote.

While the WHO claims the accord would not undermine national sovereignty, in January, Lewis warned that the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) contained in the proposal will compromise Canada’s autonomy by giving the international organization increased power over Canadians in the event of an “emergency.”      

“Canada consented to the amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which limits Canada’s time to respond to further amendments, despite thousands of Canadians signing a petition expressing their concerns,” Lewis said at the time, referring to a petition she endorsed demanding that the Liberal government “urgently” withdraw from the United Nations and its WHO subgroup due to these concerns.

The petition warned that the “secretly negotiated” amendments could “impose unacceptable, intrusive universal surveillance, violating the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Canadian Bill of Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”       

The news that Canada is still negotiating the terms of the treaty comes nearly five months after countries failed to come to an agreement.

As a result, the treaty was never ratified, a development that was tepidly celebrated as critics remained concerned that the WHO and other countries would continue to push the initiative.

Indeed, while the treaty was never given the green light, the Trudeau government went ahead and announced a new agency to regulate Canadians in case of “future pandemics” and “health emergencies.” 

The news sparked outrage and concern online considering the Trudeau government’s heavy-handed response to the COVID-19 so-called pandemic, which included prolonged lockdowns, travel restrictions and vaccine mandates.

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Long waits for health care hit Canadians in their pocketbooks

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From the Fraser Institute

By Mackenzie Moir

Canadians continue to endure long wait times for health care. And while waiting for care can obviously be detrimental to your health and wellbeing, it can also hurt your pocketbook.

In 2024, the latest year of available data, the median wait—from referral by a family doctor to treatment by a specialist—was 30 weeks (including 15 weeks waiting for treatment after seeing a specialist). And last year, an estimated 1.5 million Canadians were waiting for care.

It’s no wonder Canadians are frustrated with the current state of health care.

Again, long waits for care adversely impact patients in many different ways including physical pain, psychological distress and worsened treatment outcomes as lengthy waits can make the treatment of some problems more difficult. There’s also a less-talked about consequence—the impact of health-care waits on the ability of patients to participate in day-to-day life, work and earn a living.

According to a recent study published by the Fraser Institute, wait times for non-emergency surgery cost Canadian patients $5.2 billion in lost wages in 2024. That’s about $3,300 for each of the 1.5 million patients waiting for care. Crucially, this estimate only considers time at work. After also accounting for free time outside of work, the cost increases to $15.9 billion or more than $10,200 per person.

Of course, some advocates of the health-care status quo argue that long waits for care remain a necessary trade-off to ensure all Canadians receive universal health-care coverage. But the experience of many high-income countries with universal health care shows the opposite.

Despite Canada ranking among the highest spenders (4th of 31 countries) on health care (as a percentage of its economy) among other developed countries with universal health care, we consistently rank among the bottom for the number of doctors, hospital beds, MRIs and CT scanners. Canada also has one of the worst records on access to timely health care.

So what do these other countries do differently than Canada? In short, they embrace the private sector as a partner in providing universal care.

Australia, for instance, spends less on health care (again, as a percentage of its economy) than Canada, yet the percentage of patients in Australia (33.1 per cent) who report waiting more than two months for non-emergency surgery was much higher in Canada (58.3 per cent). Unlike in Canada, Australian patients can choose to receive non-emergency surgery in either a private or public hospital. In 2021/22, 58.6 per cent of non-emergency surgeries in Australia were performed in private hospitals.

But we don’t need to look abroad for evidence that the private sector can help reduce wait times by delivering publicly-funded care. From 2010 to 2014, the Saskatchewan government, among other policies, contracted out publicly-funded surgeries to private clinics and lowered the province’s median wait time from one of the longest in the country (26.5 weeks in 2010) to one of the shortest (14.2 weeks in 2014). The initiative also reduced the average cost of procedures by 26 per cent.

Canadians are waiting longer than ever for health care, and the economic costs of these waits have never been higher. Until policymakers have the courage to enact genuine reform, based in part on more successful universal health-care systems, this status quo will continue to cost Canadian patients.

Mackenzie Moir

Senior Policy Analyst, Fraser Institute
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