Nope. That highly-slanted article you cite is talking about stuff in the 1990's. The B.C. doctors' strike I read about lasted a couple of months sometime around 2003.

Admittedly, the stat about the death rate in B.C. dropping by 2/3 during the strike is misleading. There were no elective surgeries or treatments going on, so I'm sure a lot of Canadians crossed the line at that time and let U.S. doctors kill them.

As far as Canadian doctors moving to the U.S. - who could blame them? Making over a thousand bucks a day for playing God is a pretty good motivation.