Premiers take aim at federal money offer, say it&#39;s skewed
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OTTAWA (CP) - The country&#39;s premiers talked cordially with Paul Martin in front of the TV cameras at the first ministers meeting Tuesday, but behind the scenes they were preparing to attack.
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Toronto -- Prime Minister Paul Martin gained a major victory for his flagging government early Thursday by reaching an agreement with provincial and territorial leaders that would substantially increase federal spending for Canada&#39;s ailing $60 billion
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OTTAWA -- The federal government is kicking in billions in extra bucks for a health-care deal with the provinces -- but that won&#39;t leave much cash in Ottawa&#39;s piggy bank for anything else, analysts say.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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TONY EASTLEY: As mentioned the Prime Minister is also in northern Australia and his focus is also on national security, although he&#39;s under attack for his initial opposition to the Coalition&#39;s $600 family payment.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week&#39;s high-stakes health-care summit.
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KELOWNA - Prime Minister Paul Martin says he&#39;s willing to make concessions to forge a lasting health-care deal with the premiers, including individual deals with the provinces and the possibility of more equalization payments.
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The Federal Government says they are considering more tax cuts for lower and middle-income Canadians. Fending off attacks over the 9.1 billion dollar budget surplus, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said he
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When the federal government says it can&#39;t afford a national pharmacare program -- the one recently proposed by the provinces -- what it&#39;s really saying is that the provinces can&#39;t afford what they already have.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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Various arms of the federal government swung into action this week to boost the economy. Yet for many, the incentives are not enough.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday that a first ministers conference on medicare merits three days, three weeks or three months of negotiation -- even as Alberta Premier Ralph Klein
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin and the premiers have agreed to a vast reform of the federal equalization program worth &#36;28 billion in new cash for most provinces over 10 years.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin is downplaying the federal-provincial gulf over health funding, saying the first ministers meeting is more than just a numbers game.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.
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Ottawa - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.
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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.