As for wait times, this occurs mainly in large urban centers where there are a lot of overdoses and a lot of refugees and "new Canadians" clogging the emergency rooms and the health care system in general with real and imagined ailments. I live in a small city in Northern Ontario with a new hospital. There are, seemingly, no waits here for tests or a hospital bed or to get treated in the ER. Not a lot of refugees or new Canadians here either. Coincidence?