$900M from Ottawa will be invested in health network: Dubé
Posted March 20, 2024 1:17 pm.
Last Updated March 20, 2024 1:18 pm.
The François Legault government is promising the $900 million it obtained “unconditionally” from Ottawa will be invested in the health network.
On Tuesday, Quebec and Ottawa announced an agreement in principle on health that the Legault government immediately described as “asymmetrical, without conditions.”
Quebec will be entitled to $900 million per year for 10 years – equivalent to one-sixth of what it asked for. In return, it will share its health data with the federal government, data which was for the most part already public.
At a press briefing at the National Assembly on Wednesday morning, the Liberal Opposition stressed that $900 million finances barely a week of activities in the Quebec health network.
The Liberal health spokesperson, André Fortin, was also concerned that the government would spend this sum differently, as it has done in the past, notably on transfers for daycares.
The government does indeed intend to invest the entire sums provided for in the health agreement for the health network, said Minister of Health Christian Dubé.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
