🇨🇦 Suddenly choice is a threat to Ottawa

Nearly 400 Alberta physicians signaled interest in dual practice before it even launches, and the health bureaucracy reacts like the regime is collapsing. That tells you everything. Bill 11 lets specialists work in both public and private systems, with required public hours and government approval, but the usual cartel is screaming that any escape hatch from monopoly medicine is basically treason. The federal line is comedy: Alberta has jurisdiction, but Ottawa is still being lobbied to step in and police provincial health policy, as reported.

What really terrifies these groups is not inequality. It is competition. Canada’s sacred health-care myth has delivered rationing, wait lists, and managed decline for years, yet the moment Alberta tries a limited reform, the activist class starts shrieking about America. Trudeau-era Canada normalized shortages everywhere, then calls alternatives dangerous. If Alberta can prove that more choice gets people treated faster without violating the Canada Health Act, the central planners in Ottawa lose another excuse to micromanage the provinces and call it compassion.

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