2026-07-22 from globalnews.ca
Advocates are urging the federal government to increase health care funding and impose more conditions on what the provinces can do with that money.
Friends of Medicare director Chris Galloway says Ottawa shouldn’t give a blank cheque that could allow provinces like Alberta to dismantle the public system.
Galloway and more than 100 others gathered outside a meeting of provincial and territorial premiers in Charlottetown to protest Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plans to allow some physicians to offer privately paid surgical procedures beginning this fall.
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