Provinces must commit to health-care reform, Trudeau says as health systems strain
“I would think that the federal government would want to be part of that and to contribute its share, and that’s what we’re asking,” Dix said.
“It’s always a new moving excuse, a new line in the sand that drifts away after the tide comes in,” he said.Imposing performance measures on the provinces that affect their access to the Canada Health Transfer is more or less unheard of, said Haizhen Mou, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan who studies health policy.It’s understandable that provincial leaders don’t want to change that precedent, she said in an interview Tuesday.
That’s what the Paul Martin government did in 2005 to address wait times, and what Trudeau did in 2016 to fund mental-health and home-care services in the face of similar circumstances. “I’m not sure how long they can hold out, because the revenue, the power of the fiscal capacity, is still in the federal government’s hands,” she said.Health-care advocates, including nurses and doctors’ associations, have echoed Trudeau’s call for a plan to transform Canada’s broken system and to do it quickly.
Dix said that can’t happen until the prime minister is willing to come to the table for an open discussion. He said Trudeau has not committed to that.
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