Manitoba premier Brian Pallister says he’d like to see the federal government “make a real commitment” to a federal-provincial partnership on health care.
Pallister sent out a press release following the federal Liberal’s fiscal update Monday afternoon, after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the federal deficit this year has reached $381.6 billion.
Freeland says the feds are proposing $25 billion in new spending to help Canadian businesses. She also spoke on possibly bringing the wage subsidy back to 75% of business payroll costs.
Pallister says he welcomes the support for small businesses, but worries broader health-care cost consequences were not referenced in Freeland’s fiscal update.
He says the health care issue will be a topic of discussion at the upcoming First Ministers’ Meeting with the prime minister on December 10.
