🇨🇦 A Nurse Had 3 to 5 Seconds for a Dying Patient — This Is the Healthcare System Mass Immigration Built

At a coroner's inquest into the sepsis death of 24-year-old Heather Winterstein at a St. Catharines hospital, triage nurse Andrea Demery testified she spent three to five seconds assessing the young woman before she died hours later. Her explanation: staff were overwhelmed. Demery told the inquest plainly — nurses are burned out, nurses are exhausted — and no one in power will connect that statement to the policies that produced it.

Canada added over a million net new residents in a single year at the peak of Trudeau's immigration surge, with healthcare infrastructure nowhere near equipped to absorb that demand. Emergency departments were already strained before the population spike. Hospital capacity, nursing ratios, and wait times were already a national scandal. The federal government's answer was to import healthcare workers from abroad on temporary visas rather than train and retain Canadians — a short-term patch that does nothing for systemic capacity. Heather Winterstein got three to five seconds. The ministers responsible for this system get full pensions and speaking fees. That is the ledger.

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