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It's 3 months for Quebec and 153 days for Ontario http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/ohip/

What happens to you if you move and then get in a terrible accident? Does your former province cover you during this in-between residency establishment phase? Do you need to move back to your old province (or be moved back) before the waiting period expires? Or are you completely SOL?

I'm not sure, I think that in the specific case of an inter-province move you're still covered by the older province

Or you get a separate private insurance if you're coming into Canada to stay

I suspect that even without any coverage you're not SOL because of things like the mandatory insurance that vehicles must have

Okay, I figured there must be some provision for movers but was unwilling to assume - so the old province would cover me if I had some incident in the new province (car accident, heart attack, mega food poisoning, whatever)...

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