Waiting for New Medicines: How Does Canada Compare to the United States and Europe? finds that, due to government barriers, Canadians have access to fewer new drugs than Americans and Europeans.

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 is a new study that finds Canada’s health-care wait times reached 27.4 weeks in 2022—the longest ever recorded—and 195 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking medical wait times. Before this year, the longest recorded wait time was 25.6 weeks in 2021. Prince Edward Island has the longest wait times in the country this year, and Ontario recorded the shortest wait time, which was still more than five months long.

An Evaluation of the Proposed PMPRB Amendments is a new study that finds Ottawa's amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations and subsequent drug-pricing changes may result in lower costs, but will also likely reduce Canadians’ access to life-saving pharmaceuticals and potentially discourage investment in Canada’s pharmaceutical sector.