B.C. Premier John Horgan says provinces, Ottawa need to stop quibbling about numbers
VICTORIA — Canadians want federal and provincial leaders to “sit down like adults” and figure out how to properly fund health care instead of sparring over numbers, B.C. Premier John Horgan says.
“They use this fake figure of 22 per cent because they deliberately refused to acknowledge that $20 billion was generated last year by provinces and territories in tax points that the government of Canada withdrew from and they then took up immediately to generate revenue for themselves,” LeBlanc said on CBC Power and Politics.
“People expect us to sit down and figure out how they’re going to be able to get their hip replacement when they need it, that there’s going to be a long-term care facility for their parents when they need it, that the pharmaceutical advances that we’re seeing are there to be provided to people not at exorbitant costs, but at reasonable costs. That’s the foundation of delivering public health care.
He called it “disingenuous at best to suggest that that the federal government is carrying this load when it comes to funding public health care in Canada — it’s just not the case. Now we can quibble over the numbers, but Canadians will not thank us for that.”
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