To make room for big increases in defence spending, the Carney government is cutting the Public Health Agency of Canada.
  • Toto@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    Carney’s government is maintaining its billions in health transfers to the provinces at their current level.

    The cuts are for:

    • the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC);
    • the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases;
    • the Emergency Treatment Fund, which provides assistance to Indigenous communities and municipalities to deal with the opioid crisis;
    • a 10-year $6 billion federal contribution to home and community care;
    • and the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy.

    Ramping down the COVID one is ok but the ones supporting indigenous community are questionable

  • cheeseburger@piefed.caEnglish
    101·
    1 day ago

    The government does not have to actively axe most of these programs. With the exception of PHAC, they are all slated to expire this year or next.

    Carney’s team can simply let them all lapse, despite the continuing and acute health needs throughout the country. And as far as we can tell, letting them quietly expire seems to be the Carney team’s current plan.

    Federal programs with existing expiry dates is not the same as slashing, and the source is vibes, wtf. So someone bring this up in QP and so they can’t “let them quietly expire”, but there is no slashing going on.

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
    268·
    2 days ago

    Might as well not have any public health at this point. What would be the difference?

    Man, fuck conservatism. And fuck this guy for further eroding our social safety net.

    “hE wAs ThE bEsT cHoIcE aT tHe TiMe” my ass. Even with Singh we wouldn’t have had this kind of shit. And Trump would’ve had a meltdown having to deal with a brown skinned turban-wearing prime minister and it would have been hilarious.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      172·
      2 days ago

      Jagmeet simply did not have the support to remotely have a chance to win instead of PP or Carney. That’s the context in which Carney “was the best choice at the time.” Not much else. I agree we’d been better off with Jagmeet.

      I think things would shake out differently in a couple of years with Avi’s NDP on the docket. Perhaps not an NDP gov’t but I think we’d get significantly more seats than the last election.