Category: Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos

Feds, Provinces Closer to Reaching Health-Care Funding Deal: Minister

January 20, 2023
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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he is “very optimistic” that Ottawa is close to reaching a deal with the provinces to increase federal health-care funding, saying there’s been “a great deal of progress” on the matter this month. “I am very optimistic—as the prime minister said earlier this week, as well—there’s been a change of…

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‘Lots of Work’ Needed Before Ottawa Can Finalize Provincial Health-Care Funding Deal, Says Minister

January 17, 2023
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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says there’s “lots of work” to be done yet before the federal government can finalize its potential health-care funding increase to the provinces, which has been in the works for months. “[We need to] keep working very hard in the weeks to come because lots of work still needs to be…

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$1 Billion Worth of Unused COVID Vaccines in Canada Will Expire by Year’s End, Says Auditor General

December 6, 2022
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About $1 billion worth of unused COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are set to expire by the end of 2022 due to an excess supply previously acquired by the federal government, wrote Auditor General Karen Hogan in a performance audit tabled today in the House of Commons. “We found that the Public Health Agency of Canada…

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