Canada has 1.95 acute care hospital beds per 1,000 people, fewer than any other OECD country but Mexico.
I think we're in agreement that more money could be spent on our healthcare systems. That said, your link is to an opinion piece from March 19, 2020 which also says "Overall, it is not a bad system. Despite Canada’s strained health care resources, we have decent health care outcomes. Canadians born today can expect to live 82.3 years, 3.4 years longer than their American counterparts. According to key indicators of health care quality, such as five-year cancer survival rates or the percentage of patients surviving strokes, Canada ranks in the top half of OECD countries."
I think we're in agreement that more money could be spent on our healthcare systems. That said, your link is to an opinion piece from March 19, 2020 which also says "Overall, it is not a bad system. Despite Canada’s strained health care resources, we have decent health care outcomes. Canadians born today can expect to live 82.3 years, 3.4 years longer than their American counterparts. According to key indicators of health care quality, such as five-year cancer survival rates or the percentage of patients surviving strokes, Canada ranks in the top half of OECD countries."
Despite her pronouncement in March 2020 that new ICU beds require new buildings, it turned out that temporary ICU beds could be cobbled together although staffing them was a problem. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-icus-adding-beds-but-will-it-help-1.5985771 My local hospital doubled its ICU capacity when called upon.