Canadian Medical Association speech

In a speech to the Economic Club of Ottawa, CMA President John Haggie discussed the impact of issues such as income and housing have on Canadians' well-being. "If you are in the bottom 10 percentile of income in this country, your disease-free life expectancy at birth - the period you can expect to live before developing chronic disease - is 52 years. The Canadian average is 68 years, and if you are in the top 10 percent in terms of family income, your average disease-free life expectancy at birth is 78 years." Read the full speech here.