Canada has the highest rate of degenerative disease among OECD countries.  Canada has no credibility when it comes to this issue.  There are a lot of people in needless pain because the system has not implemented some relatively simple guidelines that would avoid degenerative disease in a lot of people.  

Don't provide the hilarious explanation that it is because of Vitamin D3 and lack of sunlight.   Most of our population lives south of Northern European countries, and so they have populations that receive even less Vitamin D from sunlight than we do.