Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau to sit down with provincial counterparts ahead of Monday’s health transfer meeting
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‘Less money available for nurses and doctors and health care’
The premiers seem unimpressed with Jim Flaherty’s change to the health care funding formula.
Aglukkaq’s letter to provincial health ministers: slip-slidin’ away
PostMedia’s Jason Fekete is a good reporter who writes about serious things, so I’m a little nervous to note I read Leona Aglukkaq’s new letter to provincial health ministers pretty much the opposite of the way he reads it. Maybe I’ve got it wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time. Let’s go through it.
Health transfers: More on flat tires and etiquette
Paul Wells on how Ottawa never offers to negotiate when preparing to cut or limit transfers
Six percent, until it’s not six percent
The Finance Minister shows his hand on health transfers.
What did the Conservatives promise on health transfers?
The Harper government is apparently eager to cap increases to health transfers after 2016 and is apparently willing to argue that their election promise to increase transfers at 6% per year was limited to two years. The Ontario government seems to think that’s not quite what the Conservatives promised.