Premiers Express Disappointment With Trudeau’s Pitch for Health Care Transfer Deal

Premiers Express Disappointment With Trudeau’s Pitch for Health Care Transfer Deal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Canada's premiers in Ottawa on Feb. 7, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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After the first meeting between Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in over two years, the premiers came away expressing disappointment in the federal government’s offer on health-care transfers, and an intention to continue negotiations.

In the Feb. 7 meeting in Ottawa, Trudeau offered to increase the federal share of health-care spending by $196.1 billion over the next decade, of which $46 billion would be new money.