Trudeau to hold health-care funding talks with premiers next month, sources say
Ongoing negotiations towards a new health-care funding pact have been front and centre throughout the retreat.
The sources say the meeting is not intended to finalize a new pact but rather to solidify the steps needed to reach such a deal.A spokesman for British Columbia Premier David Eby tells The Canadian Press the premiers will be in Ottawa Feb. 12 and 13 for a meeting and Trudeau is welcome to join them.Trudeau meets with cabinet at retreat in Hamilton
Canada’s health care system is strained to the breaking point following three years of COVID-19 and a growing shortage of health-care workers.The premiers are asking for Ottawa to increase its share of health care budgets to 35 per cent from about 22 per cent currently. Trudeau and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos have not publicly specified how much Ottawa is willing to add to the health-care funding pie but have said any new money will require the provinces to show how it will be used to improve patient care.
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