Premier Danielle Smith says her trip to Ottawa for the federal government's health-care meeting with premiers this week was both constructive and productive.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
This new cross-Canada offer includes both increases to the amount budgeted to flow through the Canada Health Transfer as well as federal plans to sign bilateral deals with each province and territory that are mindful of each system's unique circumstances. "We were pleased to see that most of the funding increase was in the Canada Health Transfer– that's particularly important to Alberta because it's divvied up on a per-capita basis and it has no strings attached. That, at least, was the right balance–that most of the dollars are coming through with no strings attached."
"What we see coming forward now, and the escalators that have been proposed, basically account for the cost of inflation and population growth, so it doesn't really get us much further ahead," Shepherd said. Shepherd said were the Alberta NDP to win in the upcoming provincial election, they'd sit down with folks on the frontline to ask them where the funds need to go.
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