Pandemic heightens urgency for Canada Health Transfers reform

If Ottawa wants to support the provinces in providing public, universal health-care services we are all proud of, it should consider an approach aligned to what it is looking to achieve and what Canadians want.

It’s easier for any of us who have been paying attention to see the direct correlation between the level of funding our provinces receive from the federal government and our access to treatments and care that impact our health and well-being, write Renato Discenza and Paul-Emile Cloutier. Pexels photograph by EVG Kowalievska

Opinion

BY PAUL-ÉMILE CLOUTIER, RENATO DISCENZA

April 20, 2022

With the federal government having unveiled its spending plan for the coming year, the conversation between the federal government and the provincial and territorial governments over Canada Health Transfers (CHT) will be taking on a new urgency. The past two years of fighting the relentless COVID-1...

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