December Ontario: Cent Tothree

december ontario: Last December, the Liberals made clear they would stick with the previous Conservative government's plan to reduce the annual increase in federal health care spending from six per cent tothree per cent in 2017-18, which provinces initially rejected before New Brunswick signed a separate agreement in late December, according to National Observer. Ontario, for example, asked for a 5.2 per cent annual increase. The five other provinces are holding out for higher increases in annual transfers. In all, the numbers revealed that Ottawa intended to provide 37.15 billion in health transfers for the year 2017-18, up from almost 36.1 billion in 2016-17. What better time, suggests Toronto family doctor and author Danielle Martin, for Canadians to reflect on their public health care system and ways to strengthen it. To top it off, a landmark lawsuit by a B.C. doctor advocating for more private health care may create an important precedent that could unravel the public health care system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.