Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to commit billions of dollars to help shore up a strained health-care system, opening the spending taps for a service that many Canadians say isn’t working well.
Trudeau will host provincial leaders this week in Ottawa to try to make progress on a new health funding deal. The premiers want as much as $28 billion in new annual spending. Federal officials dispute the need for that amount, and they want to place conditions on the money, such improving outcomes in long-term care.
Along with the backlog of surgeries and other procedures created by the pandemic, which forced hospitals to ration resources, frontline staff are burned out from the stress of the COVID crisis, she said. Major new spending is certain to prompt concerns about the government’s fiscal track, given the enormous deficits it ran up during the pandemic, which raised the ratio of federal debt to gross domestic product to about 45 per cent from 30 per cent before.
Pledging more money for health care comes on top of the Liberal government’s $30 billion childcare program and a $5.3 billion dental-care plan announced last year. In 2017, the government signed bilateral deals with each province that laid out details of how $11 billion in new money would be used for improving access to home and community care, along with mental-health and addiction services.
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