‘The prime minister is not a potted plant’: B.C. health minister calls for Trudeau to engage on health funding

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.

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