Eh, I'm on the fence on this kind of thing at this point.

Personally, with the funding where it's currently at, I don't feel like I'm getting any real service -- it's gone significantly downhill since I was younger. I have family members who've waited years to get assistance with basic mobility issues, and being on wait lists for specialists for years seems super common in general.

I also hear stories from people who work as nurses, about the abuses of the system that commonly goes on. There's one woman I know of who's earning well north of $100k per year in the Vancouver region, who typically works like 4-6 days per month, due to how easily the system is gamed by health care professionals. Heck, our lack of doctors is in part the result of the doctors union/associations refusing to put effort into certifying foreign trained doctors, because in part they want to keep the talent pool small and the revenue high.

So I generally get this sense that the increased funding they've gotten over the years, has been completely wasted money. It's managed to get us a less efficient and less patient-oriented system, while allowing union based workers to enjoy ever increasing benefits while providing reduced service. Sorta like how increases in education funding doesn't help sort out the lack of teachers/marketable skills at graduation, it just pays the current teachers more to continue producing non-producing graduates in a flat market.

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

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.

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.