Trudeau to present health-care offer to premiers in long-awaited meeting for new deal
Posted: Feb. 7, 2023 6:59AMPrime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to reporters in the foyer as he arrives for question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Trudeau is joining Canada's premiers at the table today where he is set to offer them a significant increase towards health-care funding.
On his way into the cabinet meeting he will chair ahead of his afternoon talks with the premiers, Trudeau said the federal government will be “investing significantly” to upgrade the system. He plans to show the premiers the offer Ottawa is prepared to make when he meets with them in Ottawa today. “We all have to recognize it hasn’t been delivering at the level that Canadians would expect,” he said.The provinces budgeted about $204 billion for health care in this fiscal year and the Canada Health Transfer was set at $45 billion, or about 22 per cent of that. The premiers want the federal share to increase to 35 per cent.
On Tuesday, Trudeau listed getting more family doctors, shorter waiting lists, support to recruit and retrain workers and improving mental health care as some of those possible areas.
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