September 6, 2018
The federal government is currently choosing its approach on national pharmacare. New Mowat research finds that the success of any approach depends in part on how it interacts with the variety of existing provincial pharmacare programs. Read More
September 6, 2018
The federal government is deciding how to proceed on national pharmacare. Whatever path it chooses, federal action on pharmacare will need to carefully consider its interactions with an existing landscape of provincial programs. Read More
July 25, 2018
One unfair fiscal transfer has resulted in Ontarians over-contributing to EI by nearly $12 billion over the last 10 years Read More
July 25, 2018
Over the ten years from 2007 to 2016, Ontarians paid a total of $96.3 billion more in federal taxes than they received in federal spending. In 2016 alone, that gap was $12.9 billion. This is the key finding from A Fair Fiscal Deal: Towards a more principled allocation of federal transfers, Mowat’s latest report. Read More
July 25, 2018
Over many years, the Mowat Centre’s research has documented the fact that Ontarians receive far less in federal spending than they send to the federal government in tax revenue. Newly released data again highlights this “fiscal gap” – and shows that it is growing. Read More
February 22, 2017
Universal health care in Canada is strongly attached to Canadian values such as equity, fairness and solidarity. Read More
December 20, 2016
Canada’s federal and provincial governments failed to reach a long-term agreement on health care funding in Ottawa yesterday. Time will tell whether this failure represents an impasse, or just one of many rounds of negotiation to arrive at a mutually agreeable settlement. Read More
December 5, 2016
Provincial and Territorial Premiers have called on the Prime Minister for a meeting dedicated to the issue of health care funding. The call comes against the backdrop of federal plans to decrease the growth rate of federal health transfers to the provinces. Without federal action, the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) funding escalator will fall to the 3 per cent floor currently set out in federal legislation starting next year. Read More
September 9, 2016
A rapidly aging population will strain provinces’ current health care delivery models. Transformation in the sector is urgently needed. Read More
November 10, 2010
Every year, the federal government transfers approximately $50 billion in its major transfers–the Canada Health Transfer, the Canada Social Transfer and Equalization. Read More
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