Many surgeries cancelled by lockdowns last spring have since taken place, but experts say even the best-performing provinces still struggle with chronically long wait times. In British Columbia, about 30,000 procedures were cancelled or never scheduled during the two-month shutdown last spring. The province recently reported that as of Nov. 12, 2020, surgeries had been completed for 90 percent of patients whose operations had been postponed. Although a wait list of 88,401 still remained, it was 4 percent less than the same period in 2019. “Surgical capacity continues to increase across health authorities as a result of extending weekday and weekend operating room hours to improve operating room efficiency and contracting private surgical centres,” the health ministry’s progress report stated. Bacchus Barua, who co-authored the Fraser Institute’s 2020 wait times report, told The Epoch Times that B.C.’s efforts are “incredibly commendable” but wait times remain a big concern. “What’s unfortunate …