When in the past ten years have they ever been okay?

It does bring the constant closures (actual and threatened) in Thessalon, Ont. into perspective a bit, though.

Here you go

https://archive.is/YbI4G

The reason BC looks like it has no closures is because it took them 7 months to provide the data after the information was requested, they didn’t provide data for all the years requested, and the data arrived 2 days before publication. Archive source

This isn’t one of those cases where we can point and say “look at how bad the conservatives are” when BC didn’t provide the data requested that every other province (regardless of governing party) did. This is kind of more embarrassing because we know BC has ER closures.

All provinces/territories deserve better healthcare, don’t let missing data trick you into thinking BC is doing healthcare perfectly.

Look at Quebec, Ontario, and BC, and compare them to the rest of the country. There are two divides, but I'd say the divide between almost no closures and no closures is less significant than the divide between almost no closures and a lot of closures.

I maintain that health care needs to be moved to the national level, because trying to maintain it at the provincial level clearly isn't working.