Source says the 10-year funding proposal from Ottawa will include tens of billions of dollars of new money as well as earlier planned increases to the Canada Health Transfer
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will table a funding offer considerably higher than $100-billion to help fix the country’s struggling health care system when he sits down with provincial premiers and territorial leaders Tuesday, according to a senior federal source.
Earlier, the Prime Minister told reporters that the bilateral agreements are needed to address specific needs of each province and territory, such as primary care, long-term care facilities, mental health and home care. Similarly, B.C. Premier David Eby said provincial spending on health would continue to rise under his government.
“I have no problem giving him [Trudeau] that,” Mr. Legault told reporters on his way into an evening meeting of the premiers. For more than two years, the premiers have been pressing for an immediate, no-strings attached increase to the CHT to. That would have meant a $28-billion hike but provincial sources concede that they don’t expect Ottawa to meet that request.
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