It's a noticeably thinner budget that left some of the Liberal Party's major 2021 election promises on the cutting room floor. HealthCareCAN, an industry group representing health care organizations and hospitals, said it was pleased to see Freeland propose some tweaks to the temporary foreign worker program to help with health care staffing. But the group said more is needed "urgently" to "shore up our overwhelmed health care system." Mental health care transfer missing from budgetCanada is in the throes of a mental health crisis. We are facing a parallel pandemic of mental health and substance use issues combined with an opioid crisis.

Source: CBC News April 11, 2022 00:00 UTC