“This could end Canadian medicare as we know it.”
That’s the chilling conclusion of a recent report on Alberta’s push to create a privatized, U.S.-style health care system in the province.

With its controversial Bill 11, Premier Danielle Smith’s hard-right government is effectively taking a wrecking ball to Canada’s public health care system and the principles that underlay it.

But Smith is not working alone. Documents and lobbying records reviewed by The Breach show that behind the scenes, private health insurance giants—Manulife, Canada Life, and Sun Life—and their lobbyists are, in their own words, “key partners” of the Smith government’s efforts to craft a two-tier health-care system.