STORY: Protests flared in Paris on Friday after France’s Constitutional Council gave a green light to French President Emmanuel Macron's flagship pension reform.It boosts the age for drawing a full pension to 64 from 62.And officials are vowing to bring it into force swiftly.The court's approval comes despite months of street protests and strikes.Opinion polls show a vast majority of people are against the changes and take issue with the government pushing the bill through parliament without a final vote it might have lost."What can I say, I'm shocked. The money the provinces receive as part of their bilateral agreements is supposed to be directed toward priority areas including increasing staff, reducing waiting lists and backlogs, increasing access to primary care and expanding the use of technology to improve services.įederal officials have praised the work Houston and Health Minister Michelle Thompson were doing on that front even before the bilateral agreement was signed. It's that base amount that helps smaller provinces such as Nova Scotia because all provinces with a population of 500,000 or more received the same amount of money: $50 million. The calculation used to set the bilateral payouts includes a base amount and additional money related to population. The Health Department's numbers show that Nova Scotia's bilateral deal is far ahead of many other provinces on a per capita basis, including Ontario ($54.30), Quebec ($56.74), British Columbia ($60.27), Alberta ($61.87), Manitoba ($86.19) and Saskatchewan ($92.63). The bilateral deals recognize that "running a health-care system is the same, whether you have 13 million people or 1 million people," said Houston. Nova Scotia premiers have long argued that the per capita funding model of the Canada Health Transfer disadvantages smaller provinces that often have older, sicker populations that cost more to treat. "It's a good deal for smaller jurisdictions because, for the first time, the federal government has moved away from strictly per capita. "This is a good deal for Nova Scotians," he said. "It seems that they failed to negotiate a deal that was at least as good as our neighbouring provinces and I think the premier shouldn't be content with that." 'Good deal for Nova Scotians,' says premier "It's up to the premier and his cabinet to represent the interests of this province," Churchill told reporters. Liberal Leader Zach Churchill said responsibility for the difference falls to Houston. But numbers provided by the provincial Health Department show Nova Scotia's per capita share of $98.98 is less than New Brunswick ($111.31), Newfoundland and Labrador ($145.33) and P.E.I. The province will get $103.2 million in 2023-24 as part of that agreement, more than any of the other Atlantic provinces.
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