Canadian Politics Today

Some reading for you on the subject:

The PBO’s annual long-term fiscal sustainability report released Thursday says the Harper government’s decision to scale back the growth in Canada Health Transfer payments means provincial governments will increasingly struggle to afford health-care services for their citizens.

This is not what we were talking about. And the health increases were never designed to continue to rise by 6% annually forever. They were supposed to rise for a decade to make up for all the money the previous government had cut. Then after that they rose by 4.9% instead of 6%. As long as they continue to rise by high levels the provinces, like those idiots in Ontario, had no particular incentive to reign in their out of control spending.