"The end of the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer agreements next year raises red flags for those concerned about poverty as these are essential financial tools that help provinces and territories provide health care services, and ameliorate or prevent poverty. This and the scheduled phase out of $1.7 billion in federal expenditures for social housing over the next five years, the failure to develop a pan-Canadian early learning and child-care plan, a National Child Benefit that hasn’t increased since 2007, the inadequacies of long-term care provisions, and the lack of a national Pharmacare program mean we have a ‘perfect storm’ in which key federal programs addressing the social determinants of health are at grave risk, just not there, or are at best inadequate....
"A growing number of Canadians understand the compelling civic, moral and economic reasons why poverty must be tackled. Now is the time for the united voice of the provinces and territories to call on the federal government to take up their responsibilities to reduce and eventually eradicate poverty in Canada."
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1144306-premiers-connect-dots-between-poverty-and-health
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