Trudeau promises billions in new health-care spending to hire 7,500 doctors, nurses – By John Paul Tasker (CBC News) / Aug 23 2021
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If voters return his party to government on Sept. 20, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised Monday to spend $3 billion more on health care to help the provinces hire 7,500 new family doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners.
Speaking to reporters at a campaign stop in Halifax, Trudeau said a government led by him would “rebuild” a health-care system ravaged by COVID-19 by recruiting more physicians and eliminating wait-lists that have grown during the pandemic.
While the federal Canada Health Transfer has steadily increased under Trudeau, repeated provincial calls for a much larger cash injection to help address mounting costs and longer wait-times have gone unanswered.
But the Liberal leader said today he hears that the federal government “needs to step up with more funding to make sure people are getting better care right across the country. So that’s what we’re going to do.”
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