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Information on the elderly's level of trust in the health system is given for five regions: the Atlantic provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie provinces and British Columbia.
The graph illustrates that elderly people who live in British Columbia are most likely to say that they have little or no trust in the health system. This proportion was around 40%. The elderly in the Atlantic and Prairie provinces were in the middle. As for elderly people in Quebec and Ontario, they were most likely to say that they had a great deal of trust in the health system.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2003.