Duclos optimistic over ‘change in tone’ from provinces on health funding deal
“We have seen a shift towards a focus on what matters to Canadians, which are results – results for the patients and health-care workers. That’s what people want and that’s what I believe the premiers also want now,” Duclos said Friday.
The premiers have been calling for a $28-billion increase to the Canada Health Transfer, which they say will bring the federal contribution toward health costs to 35 per cent from 22 per cent currently. Federal officials have disputed these figures, saying they do not represent the full scope of Ottawa’s total investment in health care, as tax points to provinces and other specific bilateral deals on mental health and home care are not being factored into the provinces’ calculations.Still, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he’s willing to increase federal health transfers, but only if they agree to a set of shared priorities that would see “tangible results” for Canadians.
Last month, the premiers directed their health ministers not to disclose positive progress that had been made behind closed doors during a meeting of all provincial, territorial and federal health ministers in Vancouver in early December, Duclos, who took part in these meetings, told Global News in an interview last month.
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