Premiers look to push Trudeau on health care spending in December
OTTAWA — Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod says the provinces and territories are pushing to make health-care spending a priority when they sit down next month with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The premiers are scheduled to meet Trudeau in two weeks to discuss climate change, but they also want to put federal health transfer payments on the agenda.
The premiers are united in their opposition to a Liberal plan to cut the annual “escalator” increase in health-care transfers to three per cent from six per cent, McLeod said Thursday.
Health-care delivery is particularly challenging in the North, he said, since the population is spread out over a vast area.