A doctor in Vancouver, Dr. Day. Started the debate between Canada's current publicly funded system and and a proposed two tiered system. This system would retain many of the features of the public system where procedures are covered by the provincial government; but with the change that patients who wanted to avoid wait lists would be able to pay for private health care. The reason that Day proposed the change to the system was to free up wait times and allow doctors to have more procedures. Those that oppose a two tier system dispute the claim that wait times will be lowered and say that a two tier system will lead to inequality and transnational corporations coming into Canada to make money. I personally believe that a two tier system would be beneficial to both patients and doctors in Canada. To me it has the positives of both systems, equality for Canadians in the lower-mid class with the option for high class citizens to free up waiting lists.
The Keegstra Case was a landmark case in Canadian history which dealt with the freedom of speech and expression versus the law against hate propaganda. James Keegstra was a teacher who made anti-Semitic comments and was accused of hate propaganda. The case made its way to the supreme court where it was decided that hate propaganda is a form of expression meaning it's protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Personally, although I don't think people should be putting out hate propaganda; it's important to protect all free speech so that it couldn't be used as a slippery slope where the government could suppress any message because they claim it's "hate propaganda". I put the Charlie Hebdo cartoon above because reading about the Keegstra case reminded me of the Charlie Hebdo situation and how it came to be because people were offended at one of their comics; but how it's still important to protect their freedom of expression.
Childcare in Canada currently is costly and in high demand. Similar to the issue of healthcare in Canada, some people wonder if we should move from our private system to a publicly funded one in order to ease the cost on parents around the country. As seen on the graph above Canada has one of the highest child care costs in the developed world. There is currently a system in Canada where you can apply for subsidized childcare, but it's not available to everyone as spots in those programs are slim. I think that taxpayer funded childcare would be good for citizens as it would reduce costs for parents giving them more capital to spend, therefore growing the economy.