PM Trudeau presents premiers $196B health-care funding deal, including $46B in new funding

Let's shake on it

$70 BILLION by the provinces allocated to healthcare that the provinces put towards pet projects. The feds throwing more money at the problem isn't going to fix this.

^^ THIS is the elephant in the room. Canadians are sick and tired of the hot potato BS the feds and provinces are stuck in and want results.

It's not the feds that are responsible for the system being maintained.

The best part of CBC's coverage, is they didn't interview or even vignette Smith.

Yep, and the reality is that no matter how much the Feds offered up, the provinces would demand more.

Yep, and the reality is that no matter how much the Feds offered up, the provinces would demand more.

And some will fight the Feds forcing metrics on them, because a lot of healthcare funding does not go toward healthcare. I suspect those same provinces are also the ones who have underfunded healthcare so much, in order to propose privatization as a solution.

The fact that Quebec is ok with the current regime of healthcare monitoring shows just how toothless the feds are at insisting standards. Meanwhile basic staff hiring and retention is in dire straits. The fact is the provinces have the feds over a barrel and Doug Ford is chomping cigars while nurses are run ragged.

TLDR: Provinces get to keep a status quo that is not sustainable long term. Take the money and give JT a PR win and push the problems down the road.

Yay! Status quo!