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Dear John,
COVID-19 has exacerbated two of the most important ongoing public policy challenges facing Canada: the deterioration of government finances, and the comparative underperformance of our health care system.
A new Fraser Institute study out today finds that reform of Canada’s health care system needs to start with replicating changes made in the 1990s, when Ottawa removed strings to federal funding for welfare to provide the provinces with more autonomy and flexibility.
In 1994 more than 10% of Canadians were on welfare, consuming large portions of provincial budgets. The federal government then reduced federal welfare transfers to the provinces while also eliminating most of the strings attached to the funding.
This spurred innovative reforms by the provinces, which led to the proportion of Canadians on welfare dropping to less than 5%!
Find out more by reading the full study here – and please help us spread the news on social media!
Stay safe,
Niels Veldhuis
President
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