In a recent Abacus Data poll, commissioned by the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), Canadians named 3 main things as the drivers in the crisis:
- A shortage of health care workers due to strains of the job (84%)
- A shortage of health care workers due to strains of the job and insufficient wages (82%)
- A combination of mismanagement and underinvestment by both federal and provincial governments