Shawn Whatley, MD

Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.

Shawn Whatley: How Danielle Smith Could Transform Health Care

Commentary Albertans re-elected Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party with a majority on May 29. Smith now offers a ...

Viewpoints June 15, 2023
We’ve Lost Touch With Reality and What Matters, but We Can Work to Reverse It

Commentary Knowledge grows faster than our capacity to learn. Our own knowledge shrinks as a sliver of the ...

Viewpoints December 11, 2022
Have We Reached the Limits of Liberalism?

Commentary Liberal elites delight in showing tolerance for things their neighbours cannot stand. Liberalism demands embrace where many ...

Viewpoints November 18, 2022
The Only Rational Response to Truckers’ Freedom Convoy

Commentary Anyone who serves the public learns how to manage upset customers. When someone says you hurt them, ...

Canada February 7, 2022
Fix Our Failed Health System Instead of Protecting It With Lockdowns

Commentary New variants of SARS-CoV-2 hit England last fall. Over 70 percent of those infected in England’s second ...

Viewpoints March 22, 2021
Mask Laws: Necessary or Nonsense?

Commentary COVID-19 has caused two pandemics. The first infects our bodies. The second corrupts our minds. A respiratory ...

Viewpoints November 5, 2020
Different Regional Experiences Require Different Pandemic Responses

Commentary The first wave of COVID-19 hit at the peak of hospital overcrowding. Decades of trimming the meat ...

Viewpoints October 6, 2020
Asleep at the Switch in a Time of Crisis

Commentary The federal government can’t win with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel ...

Viewpoints March 17, 2020
Coronavirus: What We Need Is Rational Prep, Not Irrational Panic

Commentary As COVID-19 sweeps the globe, many of us wrestle with whether to cancel our trips to Florida ...

Canada March 4, 2020
Relaxed Response to Coronavirus Befits State of Canada’s Health Care

Commentary Coronaviruses are not new and rarely cause problems. But they can be deadly. The United States declared the ...

Viewpoints February 2, 2020
Are We All Socialists When It Comes to Medicare?

Commentary Politicians have chased the medicare merry-go-round for decades. Each party pours on money or passes new legislation. ...

Viewpoints December 9, 2019
Socialized Medicine: What’s in a Name?

Last fall, Jim Carrey, the well-known comedian, talked on “Real Time with Bill Maher” about Canadian single-payer medical care. ...

Canada November 1, 2019
Health Care: The Most Important Non-Issue in Canada’s Election

With a health care system in desperate need of innovation, every candidate competes to avoid saying anything new. ...

Canada September 30, 2019
Shawn Whatley: Is Canadians’ Pride in Universal Health Care Misplaced?

Universal health care made the top of a list of things identified as a very important source of ...

Viewpoints July 1, 2019
Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion Vs Freedom of Conscience

A recent court decision in Ontario missed the mark when it ignored the impact forced referral has on ...

Viewpoints May 27, 2019