Liberals won’t face flak from Tories over tough stance on health funding
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government may not be winning friends among Canada’s premiers as they try to wring more health-care funding out of Ottawa, but its hard line seems to be garnering support from an unlikely ally.
Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, herself a former health minister, supports the idea of a results-driven approach to federal health funding. She also agrees that more money isn’t the only solution.
And a huge increase in federal health spending over the last decade, indicators like hospital wait times remain a disappointment, Ambrose noted in a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
Those positions don’t leave a lot of daylight between herself and federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, Ambrose acknowledged: “I noticed.”