I live in British Columbia. Two years ago, I moved out here from Ontario. There's quite a bit of difference between what's covered in Ontario and what's covered in British Columbia. I was quite surprised at that.
In my own life, for instance, my continuous glucose monitor has been a life-changing device. I have one here on my arm. You can see it. I change it every week. It sends a message to my phone, and I can see right there that my blood sugar is 7.8, and it's steady across.
In the middle of the night, when you are asleep for eight hours, you can't be finger-pricking every hour or whatever. You'd be exhausted. Instead of waking up in a coma, or not waking up, an alarm will go off. I have mine set at 4.5. The alarm will wake me before I fall to a low sugar level and into an unconscious state leading to death. This is especially important if I'm home alone and there's no one there to check on me.
Access to these sorts of devices just changes your life so greatly and really gives you a chance to start living like a normal person. However, the cost of all these things—insulin pumps, insulin, syringes and what have you—is just enormous for so many people. I myself struggle with it, and I'm a person who has a pretty good life here in Canada. For somebody who's on a low income, or for children.... For somebody who has their child in school, the teacher can have an alarm on their phone. The mother can see what the child's glucose level is.
The technology is there, but the coverage across Canada is just not available, if that answers your question.