Canada experienced a “brain drain” in the 90’s, largely doctors seeking greener pastures in the US.
My friend died from a simple melanoma because his oncology appointment took months and months. And he lived in Montreal, Canada’s 2nd largest metropolis, not some prairie backwater.
I cannot say how sorry I am to hear that. It is widely known that the survival rates for cancer are something like one third of what they are in the US in countries that have socialized medicine. The story is not the first such I have heard.