Premiers call for more health care funding
Canada’s premiers met Monday in Victoria to present a united voice in demanding an increase in recurrent health care funding from Ottawa to address a staffing crisis that has forced the temporary closing of emergency departments, led to record levels of worker burnout and created obstacles for Canadians accessing health services.
Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers are members of the Council of the Federation , established in 2003 to promote interprovincial-territorial co-operation. This week’s meeting is the first in-person gathering since 2019. “We need sustainable, predictable funding from Ottawa so we can build out our budgets, make commitments to health care professionals about how we’re going to meet their needs, and most importantly, offering service to patients that expect nothing less than our best,” he said.
A statement from the office of Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said that Ottawa has invested more than $72-billion into health since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to $3-billion each for three other investments: bilateral agreements on long-term care, mental health and home care.
Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association, said years of poor planning led to the crumbling of the health care system, and that governments now seem in a state of inertia. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians president Michael Howlett said the issues facing health care systems across the country have been amplified by the pandemic and created a “perfect storm” leading to the crisis in emergency departments.
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