Winners and losers in the changing world of the Canada Health Transfer

The federal government's promised baseline for the transfer's growth does not apply for individual provinces, and some will get increases smaller than three per cent next year.

Health Minister Jane Philpott, along with Finance Minister Bill Morneau, negotiated individual health transfer agreements with every province aside from Manitoba when a national agreement could not be reached.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LIVIO DI MATTEO

May 31, 2017

The last few years have seen some dramatic changes to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), which in 2017-18 will total $37.15-billion—no small figure. The Harper era saw the move to a full per capita funding formula without a tax-point equalizing adjustment in 2014-15—basically a top-down policy c...

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