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This is significant because elderly individuals consume a lot of health care. Despite accounting for fewer than one-fifth of the overall population, Canadians aged 65 and older receive roughly half of provincial health-care spending. Provinces spend more than four times the national average per capita on persons aged 85 to 89 years old.The main conclusion here is that rising health-care demand will be unstoppable in the coming years, and governments will struggle to spend enough to stay up. Something else will have to give.There are several approaches to thinking about a health-care reform agenda centered on reducing the supply-demand gap. On the supply side, it may involve shifting certain hospital-based surgeries to for-profit or non-profit surgical centers, as some provinces have experimented with; reforming the education, training, and credentialization of health-care professionals (such as doctors, nurses, and personal support workers) to expand the labor supply; rethinking hospital budgeting to encourage more efficient use of existing resources; or various other options to maximize or boost the supplyIn terms of managing health-care demand, there is scope to address mental health and substance abuse issues better and more proactively before they create demands on physicians and hospitals; experiment with co-payments and other user fees to encourage greater cost consciousness in health-care consumption; pursue public health measures that promote prevention and chronic disease management; and other policies that ultimately constrain the growth of demand for health-care services.

These concepts are not exhaustive

nor will they appeal to everyone depending on their own goals, interests, and perspectives on trade-offs. However, thinking about Canada's expanding wait-time problem as a function of supply and demand is important for policymakers. It can assist us in identifying various policy options on both sides of the classic economic equation and, ultimately, making decisions about the greatest combination of reforms to achieve substantial progress.However, the Hub is dissatisfied with just leaving such advancement in the hands of the same old voices. We need to crowdsource ideas from new and diverse sources. It is time to raise a new generation of policy thinkers and practitioners to address our country's "wicked problems," such as healthcare wait times.That is why we are excited to announce the introduction of a new annual program dubbed The Hunter Prize for Public Policy. The Hunter Family Foundation generously supports the prize, which aims to shake up Canadian policymaking by bringing together new ideas, energy, and perspectives to tackle a clearly defined "wicked problem."Wicked problems, by the way, are policy issues or challenges that are difficult to solve for three reasons: (1) they involve interconnected economic, cultural, and social factors; (2) they are often long-term in nature; and (3) their potential solutions can be contentious due to entrenched beliefs and interests.

Each year, Canadians under the age of 40 

will be rewarded up to $50,000 in total for their innovative and practical policy solutions in response to a specific problem. An esteemed team of judges will eventually decide which idea wins. Learn more about the reward here.Participants in the inaugural competition are charged with minimizing health-care wait times. It is contemporary, relevant, and critical to the economic and social well-being of Canadians. It has been around for a long time and is starving for new voices and ideas that go beyond dogma, politics, and conventional wisdom. We couldn't think of a finer way to kick off the Hunter Prize for Public Policy.We conclude where we began, with Justices McLaughlin, Major, and Bastarache's concurring decision in 2005. They issued the following warning: "Delays in the public system are widespread and have serious, sometimes grave, consequences." More than a decade and a half later, the repercussions of such delays are even more catastrophic, and this is certain to continue as the population ages.It's encouraging that our lawmakers are acknowledging the problem. But it isn't enough. We need solutions. Canadians require healthcare, not wait times. The Hunter Prize for Public Policy aims to be a part of the solution.

According to the headlines, Beijing decided 

a few months ago to "tone down" its formerly strong foreign policy tone—a tone that had given it the nickname "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy.Anticipating greater escalation between the United States and China, if not a new Cold War, a number of Chinese officials are now advising the West to accept this extended hand and believe that, this time, Beijing means what it says and is now dedicated to acting as a responsible stakeholder.The thing is, we've seen it all before. Only those with an ahistorical view of the People's Republic of China (PRC) or misconceptions about the nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can believe that the Chinese regime, led by Xi Jinping, an autocrat's autocrat if there ever was one, is now ready to play by the established rules of international relations.At best, Beijing's new tone is just tactical, born of necessity in the midst of an internal COVID crisis and a particularly poor global reputation. Even the most hardcore party official in Beijing must admit that much of the globe has turned against the aspiring superpower.Indeed, during a meeting with President Joe Biden last year, Xi signaled his intention to repair the deteriorating relationship, paving the way for a ties-mending meeting in Beijing between the Chinese leader and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, which was later canceled due to the spy balloon incident. Yes, a number (though not all) of China's "Wolf Warrior" ambassadors have toned down their rhetoric on social media, and an infamous spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been dispatched to the party's Siberian headquarters.