
There was and will be federal healthcare funding that Trudeau is not attached to. It’s disingenuous to claim that the federal government has no tools available to achieve its goals if it so chose to make healthcare spending official policy. Historically, these things often start at the provincial level, but that doesn’t mean that they have to or that federal funding wouldn’t help a province already moving towards improving their existing system.
It’s not beyond them to invent a new program with specific funding requirements, they’ve done it many time. If voters are made more acutely aware that provinces are leaving money on the table due to corporate lobbying and partisanship while healthcare languishes and nurses exit the field, that could go very poorly for some Premiers (like Smith, whose administration is showing their ass in the middle of a healthcare spending scandal).
Idk about you guys, but I love Cobie Smulders’s voice so I’m at least gonna watch the pilot.