"Canadian governments and citizens need to remember that, not far from here, health-care insurance is a good that is sold in the marketplace like softwood lumber."

I'm just trying to figure out the geography of this statement. Australia, NZ, Japan, Ireland, UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the entire EU also sell health care insurance as a good in a marketplace. Those countries aren't nearby or close and in any metrics and quality of care have far superior outcomes at a lower cost than Canada does.
Instead of facing and adapting to challenges and a changing world, some people will always irrationally scare and terrify Canadians for their own ends. It's not 1950's Canada anymore.