Budget puts abortion access on the table in future health funding talks with provinces cbc.ca 1 hour ago Catharine Tunney © David Smith/The Canadian Press Pro-choice demonstrators rally at the New Brunswick Legislature in Fredericton on Thursday, April 17, 2014.
The federal government says any future negotiations about boosting health funding to provinces will be tied to talks on sexual and reproductive health services including abortion.
That commitment was written into the Liberal government s new budget, which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled in the House of Commons Monday. The government is committed to collaboration with provinces and territories to strengthen our health care system, ensuring equitable and appropriate access to a full suite of reproductive and sexual health services, in any upcoming Canada Health Transfer funding discussions, says the budget document, referring to the federal government s fiscal contribution to healt
Budget puts abortion access on the table in future health funding talks with provinces
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