Ottawa, provinces bicker over Canada health system
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Canada&#39;s provincial premiers boycotted a breakfast with Prime Minister Paul Martin on Tuesday, casting a shadow over top-level talks to overhaul the overloaded public health-care system.
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QUEBEC (CP) - Provincial ministers in charge of local governments said Friday the new health accord signed with Ottawa gives them confidence they can also reach a new funding deal for cities and towns.
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Canada&#39;s new public health agency should have been headquartered in Ottawa to avoid the problems the United States experienced when it located its own agency away from Washington, DC, says a Health Canada briefing note.
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Ottawa appears to be opening up to Quebec&#39;s demands to resolve the issue of health care funding, Premier Jean Charest said yesterday on his way into his weekly cabinet meeting.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Squabbling spin doctors, contradictory ledgers, prime ministerial curses, veiled threats and long, heated negotiations behind closed doors.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government will be making a huge mistake if it gives the provinces more money for health without attaching conditions to ensure it is spent to reform the system, says Roy Romanow.
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OTTAWA - Tempers flared at the national health summit on Tuesday over Ottawa&#39;s offer of short-term funding to address long waiting times for some medical procedures - a problem that some of the premiers tracked back to Paul Martin&#39;s term as finance
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin and Canada&#39;s first ministers begin round two of health care talks Tuesday, after Monday&#39;s talks were marked by bickering over proposed funding to fix the system.
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The health deal signed this month with its recognition of asymmetrical federalism is simply a reflection of the way Canada works - not a prelude to Quebec signing the Canadian constitution, says Quebec&#39;s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Benoit Pelletier
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are set to present a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out over $5 billion a year in new health-care money.
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The recent $41-billion health-care deal with the federal government will help solve some of today&#39;s problems, but does little to address inevitable challenges in the future, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord said today.
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CALGARY (CP) - Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh discounted suggestions from some provincial premiers that the recent 10-year deal on health care won&#39;t be enough.
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Ottawa has the money to set up and pay for a national pharmacare program despite its insistence to the contrary, provincial finance ministers said yesterday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The premiers went for Sunday dinner at Prime Minister Paul Martin's but his offer of billions more for health care left them confused, frustrated, and hungry for more.
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The federal government has no intention of imposing a health-reform plan on the provinces if there&#39;s an impasse in upcoming first ministers&#39; negotiations, says Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
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It was supposed to fix health care for a generation, but a much-ballyhooed summit between Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial premiers has been