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Shawn Whatley

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Covers:  Access to care, medical politics, wait times, central planning, bureaucracy
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Senior Munk Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Author of When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing (2020), and No More Lethal Waits: 10 Steps to Transform Canada's Emergency Departments (2016), Past President of Ontario Medical Association.

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It’s time to once again rescue Canada’s Right

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By Shawn Whatley
| The Hub Canada
Commentary 8 June 2026 A Conservative rally in Fredericton, N.B., March 31, 2025. Stephen MacGillivray/The Canadian Press. Lessons from Winds of Change: Friendship, coalition, and comfort with contradiction This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 Winds of Change conference, a formative moment in modern Canadian conservatism.
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Layers of Medicare dysfunction

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By Shawn Whatley
| National Newswatch
Topics Layers of Medicare dysfunction Author(s) Source Macdonald-Laurier Institute Posted Share Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel recently informed provinces they have one year to make nurse practitioners stop charging patients out-of-pocket for necessary care.
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Shawn Whatley: Bill 21 and the revolutionary imperative

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By Shawn Whatley
| Without Diminishment
(The nine justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. Photo credit: the SCC.) We must not miss the revolutionary nature of the Supreme Court’s hearings on Quebec’s Bill 21. The hearings touch far more than whether Quebec has the constitutional right to use the notwithstanding clause, or whether its use should be limited. The Supreme Court of Canada hearings on Bill 21 are about who defines Canada and who gets to change it.
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