Health-care advocates, premiers calling for urgent first ministers’ meeting to address challenges facing system’s sustainability, by mike_lpnt cdnpoli (subs)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, B.C. Premier John Horgan, and Quebec Premier François Legault pictured during a July 12 press conference following the conclusion of 2022 summer meeting of the Council of the Federation.
Following a two-day summit by provincial premiers who are calling for more federal health-care transfers to address a system increasingly in crisis, health-care advocates are calling for a first ministers’ conference as an urgently needed next step.Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.
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