The 2004 federal health accord with the provinces promised annual increases in the Canada Health Transfer of six per cent for a set 10-year period. That accord expired in 2014, but the Conservative government provided a three-year extension while promising future annual increases of at least three per cent. No federal government promised six per cent increases in perpetuity.
The simple fact is that in absolute dollars and inflation-adjusted dollars, federal health payments to the provinces will continue to go up, not down.
For those reasons, Barrette's assertion that there will be a $60-billion cut in funding over the next 10 years is full of baloney.
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