Federal oversight of health-care funding ‘basic common sense’ after public money disappeared down ‘provincial ratholes’: Fisman

More than 30,000 Canadians signed a parliamentary petition calling for better auditing of the Canada Healthcare Transfer to restrict 'private capital' from further encroaching on the public health-care system.

NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen, who sponsored the petition that garnered more than 30,000 signatures in the first two days of 2023, says the public was responding to a threat to the health-care system and the crisis of accessibility in Canada's hospitals and emergency rooms. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

January 11, 2023

A parliamentary petition calling on the Liberal government to appoint a federal agency to audit health transfer allotments gained more than 30,000 signatures in the first two days of 2023, indicating that the nation’s health-care crisis remained top of mind even as Canadia...

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