Is Canada’s social safety net crumbling?

Bloomberg News reports on growing signs that Canada’s social safety net is unravelling, from growing reliance on food banks to longer waits for health care services and a shortage of housing. This all comes at the same time that Canada’s population grows at the fastest pace of any G7 country due to open immigration policies, fuelling concerns of an anti-immigrant backlash. A spokesperson for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland rejected the suggestion that Canada’s social safety net is slipping and pointed to declining poverty rates; Bloomberg looks at the problems on the ground, from a housing crisis in Toronto, to food insecurity in Calgary, medical waits in Montreal and opioid overdoses in Vancouver.