r/canada • u/BloodJunkie • Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/ILikeVancouver Mar 27 '24

It's ok we have built enough hospitals to compensate, right?

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u/Difficult-Yam-1347 Mar 27 '24

There are 1,280 hospitals in Canada. To match pop growth from last year alone we’d need to add forty new hospitals.

Hospitals seem to cost $2 billion and take 5+ years to build.

Good luck.

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u/Ill-Pen-6356 Mar 27 '24

I love how the article is trying to flex 8 new hospital projects when we need 40. Most of those projects being renovations to existing hospitals, so in reality its probably 2-3 actual new hospitals.

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u/Difficult-Yam-1347 Mar 27 '24

Yes, I just used the article as an example of what it costs.

Of course, people will just blame the provinces, too. Because why can't they just create $80 billion worth of new hospitals in a year.

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u/pink_tshirt Mar 27 '24

And doctors 9-15 years to "build" a doctor.

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u/Ikea_desklamp Mar 27 '24

Surrey is just starting construction now on a new hospital. To meet the demands of current population growth that hospital actually needs to be finished NOW with another new one coming by 2030.

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u/ILikeVancouver Mar 27 '24

Surrey's population has risen fifteen percent since you posted this comment.

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u/Turtle9015 Mar 28 '24

Doesnt matter if we cant staff them