Trudeau to present health-care offer to premiers in long-awaited meeting for new deal cdnpoli
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“We all have to recognize it hasn’t been delivering at the level that Canadians would expect,” he said.Try refreshing your browser, orThe provinces budgeted about $204 billion for health care in this fiscal year and the Canada Health Transfer was set at $45 billion, or about 22 per cent of that. The premiers want the federal share to increase to 35 per cent.Article content
“Whenever you’re discussing from a negotiating perspective there’s riverbanks, and there has to be a some diplomacy,” he said.Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she felt “upbeat” about the impending offer and expressed openness to striking a one-off deal with Ottawa.Article content
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