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Where are these hospitals located??
I'm looking at the Lakeridge Health (Durham Region) wait times, and they are 1 hour for Oshawa, Bowmanville, and Port Perry; 3 hours Ajax/Pickering. Very, very reasonable.
The University Health Network of hospitals in Toronto lists under 2 hours at Toronto General and an hour and a half at Toronto Western.
Markham Stouffville reports under 2 hours wait in their ER.
Try Nanaimo. A city of over 100,000 people... there is ONE walk-in clinic in the city, and they are rarely open. You go there and it's either closed or there is a sign on the door "Accepting 10 patients today". So you go to the Nanaimo General ER and IF you're lucky, you will be seen in about 8 to 10 hours.
Brutal! So, from all the comments, it seems like BC is in terrible shape.
It's not any better in Alberta. :-(
In BC you can "play games" with the medical and go to smaller communities and find a Emergency Care Clinic that serves a smaller community.
Family doctors are impossible to get. There are more than a million people on the waiting lists.
To be fair, the government is making some progress on improving things. They've made changes to allow more doctors to be certified. They've pumped money into training programs (they pay a full salary and all tuition at university for some certifications). It's not perfect but it is something.
Edit: fixed some words that got mangled on mobile