more money from the federal governmentWhining for federal cash is what premiers do. It’s a major part of their job description. It’s the only thing they agree on. Of course, they never simply ask for the money; that would be unseemly, and beneath their dignity. Rather, the request – I should have said “demand” – is dressed up with all sorts of impressive-sounding rationales and contrived formulas meant to lend it an air of pseudo-scientific objectivity.
The 22-per-cent figure, needless to say, is meaningless, if not altogether bogus. In the first place, as federal officials never tire of pointing out, it excludes federal transfers in the form of “tax points” – reductions in federal taxes, enacted as
It’s called incompetence by the provincial premier’s, they are being dirty. They rob from the feds and give to the rich. And then attack our good prime minister. These rcons are a bad influence on our youth. Attract the low educated
Aw, c'mon!
GlobeDebate Private medicine integrated with medicare is the obvious and necessary solution to the threat of Canadian health care costs becoming the dragon that eats the budget.
We say yeah give them more responsibility, then they waste the money and demand more from feds. Rinse repeat.
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CPC_HQ Premiers have been delinquent & negligent! fordnation cut $1B from healthcare pre-Covid, squirreled away $5B of Federal Covid funding that OntarioAuditor can't find! Continues to block access to Covid booster shots, missing $900M for R.A.T.s, Sflecce missing tests!
Yes! Bravo, we in Alberta and Ontario are suffering greatly with crooks like jkenney UCPCaucus fordnation who have ' misplaced' 8 billions!! NeverVoteConservative
acoyne acoyne please, no more responsibility for Premiers on HC. Past studies are ignored by Premiers ⤵️ Prov’s have duplicated Canada Health Infoway’s efforts despite Prov’s being a ‘corporate’ member, Billions. More Fed jurisdiction & more Doctor - Patient driven system design.
With that headline shouldn’t it start with Justy the clown and his crew!! Start at the top and work down.
Are you speaking directly to our Sk Premier Moe? If I were the Feds, I wouldn't give anyone $$ to our province. Our Provincial government is totally untrustworthy with any funds it receives from the Feds.
They’ll first need to know what responsibility means
How about fulfilling your present responsibilities before asking for more.
Thank you for the TruAnon article. 🙄
Should federal money be given to provinces that want to be independent?
Public accountability/reporting - annually - MUST be a condition of any health transfer. Benchmarks is another condition. If neither agreed to then no Federal $$$. None!
acoyne This article was a reminder that before Coyne became a covidian, I used to enjoy his commentary. It’s also worth pointing out that this proposal - convert the cash CHT into a tax transfer - is also contained in the PPC platform lol.
acoyne Cannot wait for the Liberals/NDP to be gone! That’s not how it works; unless you want them to beg like dogs!
Get rid of transfers entirely and move the taxation room to provinces. Then and only then will anyone be accountable, at long last.
Ontario wants strings attached to EVERY Federal DOLLAR that Doug Ford gets. He has already 'lost' $4.4billion in Federal Covid support & he can't be trusted to do what is needed with our money.
Why don’t they just raise provincial taxes? To pay for provincial health care? Rhetorical questions? I know the answer is the premiers would rather Trudeau pay the price at the polls
I used to think Chretien and Martin were financial geniuses. But they just created decades of this…
Fed. $ - Prov - what is not measured is not tracked. After 2+ years, you must have learned that unvalidated /unmonitored situations have a nasty habit of getting out of control? Something akin to leaving the monkey in charge of the peanuts. 🐒🥜 The $$$ are OURS!
The federal government,up to 1996 iirc, paid 50% of provincial healthcare costs. Now, it is a fraction. So, the feds choose making billionaires richer over health care decades ago. Remember that.