Trudeau says giving provinces what they want won’t improve health-care system | 24CA News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says merely giving in to the provinces’ calls for on health-care funding will not assure enhancements to Canada’s strained well being system.
Ottawa and the provinces agree that the nation’s well being system is dealing with a disaster. But when well being ministers met in Vancouver final month to hammer out a deal to enhance well being care, a disagreement over funding prevented any progress.
The provinces have been calling on the federal authorities to spice up its share of health-care funding. But Ottawa insists it will not provide up any money till the provinces agree to satisfy sure circumstances — similar to rising entry to household well being companies.
In a year-end interview with 24CA News Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton, Trudeau stood agency on the federal authorities’s place.
In a year-end interview with 24CA News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says any improve in federal health-care funding to the provinces has to return with strings connected to make sure the extra {dollars} go towards measurable, improved outcomes for Canadians.
“If I were to send people all the money they need in the provinces, there is no guarantee that … folks would be waiting less time in the hospitals,” Trudeau stated. “There is no point putting more money into a broken system.”
The full interview will air on CBC tv on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
The deadlock comes as many health-care amenities, significantly kids’s hospitals, battle with a scarcity of workers and overwhelming demand as a result of a mix of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory infections.
Trudeau is about to satisfy Quebec Premier François Legault on Tuesday. Health care is more likely to be one of many matters of their dialogue.
Earlier this month, Canada’s premiers introduced a united entrance and reiterated their demand that Trudeau sit down with them personally to hammer out an settlement on health-care prices.
Premiers additionally defended their refusal to just accept circumstances on extra federal funds and pushed again on any suggestion of throwing extra of their very own cash into the pot, although some provinces are posting funds surpluses — one thing Trudeau additionally identified within the year-end interview.
Trudeau additionally stated that if he had been to supply up the funding with out circumstances, he’d be surrendering his solely leverage to pursue enhancements to Canada’s well being system.
“One of the only levers I have is saying, ‘I’m not giving you this money with no conditions. I will fully participate in the funding of it, as long as those real improvements are made,'” he stated.
See extra of Rosemary Barton’s year-end interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday night time on The National at 9 p.m. ET on News Network, 10 p.m. ET on CBC Television.
