Is Canada’s Healthcare System Broken? | Emmanuelle Faubert | November 4th, 2025

Canada’s universal healthcare system continues to lag behind that of most nations in the  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – otherwise known as OECD. Canada has longer wait times for diagnostics and surgery, and less access to physicians.  What needs to change?  Does our system need to become more “patient-centeredToday’s guest has some suggestions – Emmanuelle Faubert is an economist with MEI, the Montreal Economic Institute.    

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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