Calls to carve up certain provisions of the Canada Health Act have been cropping up for years. Most recently, a widely circulated report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) advocates for the elimination or relaxing of certain provisions of the Act. Why? To provide the provinces with...
(0) Comments | Posted August 2, 2011 | 1:59 PM
The current federal-provincial Accord governing the Canada Health Transfer expires in 2014 and the early preparations for the next round of negotiations are getting underway. At this stage, signs are not encouraging. The Harper government appears to want to get Ottawa out of the health sector as much as possible;...
(2) Comments | Posted July 25, 2012 | 12:17 PM