Amid summer staffing crunch, no provinces have yet submitted health-care ‘action plans’ to feds

The outstanding health action plans are an ‘urgent’ matter, but provinces must take the time to get them ‘as close to right as possible’ says the president of the Canadian Medical Association.

A spokesperson for Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured, said the federal government expects it will begin to receive provincial action plans in the coming weeks with 'concrete and precise examples' of how funding will be spent.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

June 28, 2023

Over four months after a deal between Ottawa and its provincial and territorial counterparts ended an intense round of sparring on funding for health care, none of the nine provinces that signed bilateral deals with the feds have submitted action plans that are required to a...

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