Even as health ministers from across the country prepare to meet in Vancouver this week, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says the federal government is not interested in a serious conversation about health-care funding.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the health-care system strained under staffing shortages and high case counts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to boost health transfer to provinces after the pandemic is over.
Now, with most pandemic-era restrictions gone — but the health-care system still under strain — Dix says the government has not shown any willingness to have Trudeau sit down with premiers to discuss augmented transfers.
“The prime minister is not a potted plant. He can defend his position if he wishes. But there needs to be a meeting,” Dix said in an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
