Ottawa-If he asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year if the federal government could put more effort into the state’s health problems, he said his answer might have been different.
Health care provision is within the authority of state and territory governments, and federal attempts to influence spending and policy have been hit by resistance.
However, the success of Trudeau’s childcare program has given the federal government a means of shaping state policy from Ottawa, and he said it could be used again.
At a roundtable at the end of the year, Trudeau said, “The federal government, frankly, has traditionally been a state jurisdiction and has made a big difference to Canadians. I gave an example. ” Canadian press.
Trudeau’s Liberal Party has so far signed 11 contracts with states and territories to provide Canadian families with $ 10 a day of day care.
Agreements vary considerably from state to state. This is a strategy that allows the federal government to advance its agenda while maintaining the autonomy of state responders and regional differences.
In essence, the government put the money on the table and recommended that they come to the state and negotiate about their slices.
This method won even Jason Kenny’s United Conservative in Alberta, who was reluctant to escape the chance to return taxes to the state.
Trudeau’s answer was emphasized when asked if the same model could be applied to federal medical goals.
“I think this is a model that can be reproduced for many things when the basics are important to Canadians,” he said.
There is no doubt that the destructive nature of Canada’s 13 individual health systems has hampered the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trudeau has revealed that the federal government does not have excellent expertise in providing medical care and does not want to provide lessons to the state, but his government can play a leading role. He said there was a place.
On Monday, Supreme Public Health Director Theresa Tam made a fervent plea to reconcile state and territory health data, for example.
Data collection is so difficult in Canada that it can still be difficult to know how many different vaccines are given to Canadians of a particular age group.
Canada is flying completely blindly as to whether a particular racial or socio-economic group has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 or has fallen into a crack in Canada’s vaccine deployment.
This is because the state collects and shares that information in different ways. Often incompatible or incomplete.
“This fragmentation, along with outdated technology, has had particularly noticeable consequences in health emergencies when access to data for real-time decision making is paramount,” Tam said. I write in her annual report released on Monday.
A long-standing problem that has made it nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of the performance of Canada’s entire medical system.
There were some attempts to solve the problem, but every time it fell on the roadside.
New efforts are currently underway in light of the gaps highlighted by the pandemic, but the Prime Minister said the federal government could play a stronger role this time.
The Canadian Medical Association is calling on the federal government to take similar steps in developing a health talent strategy for Canada as a whole.
Without it, it would be difficult to know if Canada has enough doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to meet the needs of the country.
“We don’t have the latest or solid data on Canadian healthcare providers, which we’ve been asking for help from the federal government,” said Dr. Catherine Smart, President of CMA. Interview in October. “If you don’t fully define the problem in detail, it’s difficult to know how to solve it.”
The childcare model may also meet government needs when it comes to fulfilling promises for long-term care-related campaigns, another state service previously out of control of the federal government.
Formerly the Canadian Standards Association, the CSA Group and the Health Standards Organization are already working on developing national standards for infection prevention in long-term care and long-term care.
The government has promised to enact these standards in federal law, which requires state approval.
The prime minister may invite the state again to feast on federal funding, but according to the government’s new strategy, they may have to give a little reward.
This report by Canadian Press was first published on December 18, 2021.
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