Health Care Privatization
The federal government must enforce the letter and the spirit of the Canada Health Act and enact strong penalties on provinces that allow private clinics. Federal and provincial governments need to work together to ensure a strengthened public health care system that provides timely, quality health care services to all Canadians, not just for those who can afford to pay.
Let’s take medicare down the right path
Last week the federal health minister met with her provincial counterparts to discuss the future of medicare. The Council ...
Prime Minister Trudeau it is time for federal leadership and real action on health care
Council of Canadians protest the loss of the Health Accord at the Council of the Federations, 2015
This week ...
Health Accord talks could begin as early as this week
The new Liberal health minister could begin meeting with provincial and territorial health ministers as early as next week to ...
Message to Premier Wall: Public health care will not thrive in a private system
OTTAWA – The last sitting of the Saskatchewan legislature before next year’s provincial election wraps up in just a few ...
What will Trudeau’s promised Canada Health Accord look like?
It would appear that a Canada Health Accord is back on the table with incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...
Fighting privatization in the heartland of medicare
Last week the Council of Canadians and CUPE Saskatchewan conducted a five city tour to raise awareness about the ...
Council of Canadians & CUPE health care tour concludes in Regina
A 5-community tour in defence of public health care concluded in Regina yesterday evening.
The tour, which highlighted the ...
Council of Canadians and CUPE launch 5-city tour against the privatization of health care in Saskatchewan
A 5-community tour in defence of public health care began in Prince Albert yesterday afternoon.
The tour aims to ...
