BREAKING: Trudeau lays out $196-billion, 10-year health-care offer to premiers
Trudeau is making the offer to the premiers today at a meeting in Ottawa and says it will include an immediate and unconditional top-up of $2 billion to the Canada Health Transfer to ease the intense pressure on Canada's hospitals.
“I think one of the things that we've been very consistent on all the way through this is to ensure that we have predictable and stable long-term funding put into the baseline of the Canada Health Transfer,” said Stefanson, who chairs the premiers' group known as the Council of the Federation.
Legault said he wants the money to finance the province's existing health-care plans but some of Ottawa's priorities overlap with Quebec's, such as the need for more family doctors and improvements to long-term care. Canada needs immediate health-care support, as well as a more modern system that will respond to the challenges of the future,Those challenges include an aging population with more chronic diseases and a large number of health workers reaching retirement age, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said. “We need to prepare for the future in addition to repairing the damage caused by COVID-19.”said Canada's health-care system is not working as well as it should and that has to change.
Arriving for Tuesday's talks, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey told reporters he's anxious to see a deal, and suggested he and his provincial colleagues are entering the meeting with a sense of practicality. Ontario Premier Doug Ford added the deal must support health care “not for five years, not for 10 years, but for decades to come.”cited getting more family doctors, shorter waiting lists, support to recruit and retrain workers and improving mental health care as some of those possible areas.
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