‘Desperate’ Ford to Trudeau at First Ministers’ Meeting: Shut the borders Trudeau was provided with information about a variety of deputy minister-level committees and studies that were underway then to deal with the premiers request.The premiers, at the time, would have known that the Trudeau government was busy assembling the 2021 budget, and would have been pushing to see the Canada Health Transfer increase in that budget.
As it turned out though, when the budget was tabled in April, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland did not increase health transfers and had little to say about potential future increases.Health care funding continues to be a source of federal-provincial friction and could be a potential issue in any federal election.