Trudeau pitches 10-year health-care deal with $46B in new spending – CBC

Premiers ‘disappointed’ by lack of new funding but want time to assess Ottawa’s proposal

Feb 07, 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday the federal government is prepared to spend an eye-popping $196.1 billion on health care over the next decade — including $46.2 billion in new spending on top of funds already budgeted.

The deal, which is being pitched by the federal government as a generational fix for an ailing system, would begin with provinces and territories getting an unconditional $2-billion boost to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) to address what the federal government calls “immediate pressure on the health-care system, especially in pediatric hospitals, emergency rooms and surgical and diagnostic backlogs.”

Trudeau’s proposal also includes a five per cent annual hike to the CHT for the next five years, with a built-in mechanism to permanently increase funding in the years after.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-health-care-deal-1.6740143