Ontario, Quebec and Alberta sign health-care deals with federal government - News Summed Up

Ontario, Quebec and Alberta sign health-care deals with federal government


The federal government has completed deals with Ontario, Quebec and Alberta on health-care funding. Today's deals include:$4.2 billion for Ontario over the next 10 years: $2.3 billion for home care and $1.9 billion for mental health initiatives. $1.3 billion for Alberta over 10 years: $703.2 million for home care, including money for home care infrastructure, and $586 million for mental health initiatives. The federal government put $11.5 billion in additional federal funding on the table for mental health and home care over the next 10 years. But the provinces and the federal government could not agree on the rate at which base federal funding for health care would increase each year.


Source: CBC News March 10, 2017 15:46 UTC



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