Council members are not asking Ottawa to monitor their budgeting processes or saying that they don’t want to be accountable, Horgan says
British Columbia Premier John Horgan is pushing back on federal concerns about the provinces spending new health care money from Ottawa in other areas.
Mr. Horgan, the current chair of the Council of the Federation representing provinces and territories, said council members are not asking Ottawa to monitor their budgeting processes or saying that they don’t want to be accountable for the expenditures they make. The B.C. New Democrat was responding Monday to comments by federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who told CBC that Ottawa wouldn’t increase federal spending to the provinces for health care just so the provinces could reduce their own spending.
The two-day meeting is to conclude Tuesday with a news conference. Mr. Horgan’s comments were a prelude to those closing remarks at the summer gathering.
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