Canada Health Act

There are concerns regarding patient waiting times for health care under the Canada Health Act (CHA) and this story discusses that the government has decided not to do anything about the subject. Additionally, although the Canadian federal government provides funding for health care, an official stated that

[T]here is no requirement in the CHA for the same standards of care across the country.

"A national system doesn't mean it's identical. No one ever said it was identical from one province to another.

"You can't say a service that's provided a few months later in one province than another is a contravention of the CHA. We all agree that we should reduce wait times and that's part of the talk but that doesn't mean we impose an actual standard."

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but it seems that the establishment of minimum standards of health care would be a guiding principle for a national health care system.

Am I missing something?