Funding for health care is sufficient in Canada. The problem we hear that there is not enough funds for health care is because the federal government is not doing a follow-up to see health care money transfers to the provincial governments are actually going into the Ministry of Health bank accounts.
The federal government does a money transfer to the provincial governments and these transfers are deposited into the general revenue accounts of the provincial governments.
What the federal government has to do is send federal auditors out to each provincial Ministry of Finance office and to check and see if the health care money transfers were actually used for health care.
We can assume that all provincial governments are only putting a portion of these funds into health care and keeping the balance of the total in general revenue to pay for other expenses not related to health care.
In summary, the federal government must do a paper trail audit on the 10 provincial governments to make sure that the total health care transfer funds went directly into the provincial Ministry of Health bank accounts.
Joe Sawchuk,
Duncan