Quebec has 20%+ of its population with no family doctor while Ontario has 10%

Here in metro Vancouver it is recently very easy to get a doctor, but on Vancouver Island (same province) it is very hard

Australia is much better but it's a far wealthier country with far fewer people

In Portugal I can schedule any specialist doctor visit in a matter of days in advance all online via Calendly like interface.

I don’t need to wait for family doctor approval.

I can also go and run a lab panel at will, at many locations throughout the city. No dr referenced needed. Costs like 5-10 euros per lab without insurance.

When I went to see a dr, he actually spent time talking to me one on one for the full half hour allotted. No rushing. In Canada doctor would run in and out in minutes quickly just dishing out some prescription or a lab. I felt like I was just an item on a conveyor belt.

Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.

Income inequality (when I was there in 2010's) for Canada was twice that of Australia.

It (was/is) extremely rare to see homeless people in Australia while in most places in Toronto downtown its impossible to NOT see homeless.

If you spend few years in both countries you can clearly see the standard of living difference between both countries. Canadian infrastructure is much more poorer and worse off (my observation, not my complaint)

Australia has too many drawback and none of them are weather or socioeconomic.

Australia: negative of all the above.