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FIRST READING: Canadians are so fed up, they’re abandoning political sacred cows

It’s been among the most volatile and untouchable third rails in Canadian politics: The adoption, at any level, of a private health-care system.

In the last federal election, a Conservative statement about “public-private synergies” was all it took for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to brand it as a right-wing assault on the “public, universal health-care system.”

But a new Ipsos report shows that “two tier health care” is not the threat it once was.

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