Sometimes irony just writes itself
We spent six weeks in Newfoundland a couple years ago. American’s tend not to know much about it, but Newfoundland was a colony of the UK until after the war. After the war, the UK could afford to keep it and they voted to become part of Canada. At the time, they actually had closer ties to the US in many ways. When people left Newfoundland for economic reasons they tended to go to the nearby NE US.
They really had no cash economy and few roads until WWII build up when thousands of US troops and contractors came and built airbases and port facilities. They also have been robbed of their resources..fish, oil and hydropower from Labrador(Ladrador and Newfoundland are the same CN province). There is even a independence movement in Newfoundland.
Sometimes irony just writes itself
The real irony is him coming to a country that ranks 37th in the world health care systems (according to year 2000 rankings, which may have changed today... somewhat).
You would have thought he would have picked a country that had higher rankings than Canada...
But, I'm sure that there were other factors in his decision, like same type of culture, maybe a specific doctor (or team of doctors) that had a reputation that fit his condition, or that particular facility that ranked high as compared to other facilities... and so on.
So, just the world ranking of the health care systems may not have been the primary factor...