I'll give you one number: 700,000. That's the estimate of the number of surgeries that have been either cancelled or delayed because of COVID-19. We haven't yet the ability, with the current hospital capacity, to catch up with that backlog. In many provinces and territories, we're still hospitalizing and looking after too many COVID-19 patients to try to start recovering from the backlog that we have seen over the last few months.
On March 21st, 2022. See this statement in context.