“My sense actually, in talking to my counterparts, is that there’s a great appetite in not distracting ourselves too much about the financial conversations,” Canada’s Health Minister, Jane Philpott, told CBC News, “but at this stage, obviously, developing a good working relationship together and talking about what our priorities are going to be.”
However, money is exactly what some provinces are hungry to discuss. (Provincial and territorial ministers meet together first, on Wednesday.)
Quebec’s Health Minister Gaétan Barette said in a statement that he hopes to hear Philpott’s views on “the orientations she wishes to give to the discussions about the health transfers, the actual deal expiring in 2017.”
Full article at: CBC News