New Brunswick's decision Thursday to strike a separate health funding deal with the Trudeau government has weakened the premiers' bargaining position and hardened Ottawa's resolve to rebuff attempts to extract billions more from federal coffers.
Premier Brian Gallant's move to accept a bilateral deal for New Brunswick splintered the united front provincial and territorial governments had adopted Monday when they walked away from a federal offer to increase health transfer payments by 3.5 per cent annually and fork out another $11.5 billion over 10 years in targeted funding, primarily for home care and mental health.
It's only taxpayers' money, after all, being spent on nothing important......
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