Health-care advocates, premiers calling for urgent first ministers’ meeting to address challenges facing system’s sustainability

Canadians 'deserve to have politicians rethink the health care system that was developed in the 1960s for a particular goal and for a particular population,' says Paul-Émile Cloutier, president and CEO of HealthCareCAN.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, B.C. Premier John Horgan, and Quebec Premier François Legault pictured during a July 12 press conference following the conclusion of 2022 summer meeting of the Council of the Federation. Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

July 18, 2022

Following a two-day summit by provincial premiers who are calling for more federal health-care transfers to address a system increasingly in crisis, health-care advocates are calling for a first ministers' conference as an urgently needed next step. “There is an urgency need for the meeting, but ...

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