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Canada Health Transfer payments by year since FY2005. Unlike Equalization payments, which are unconditional, the CHT is a block transfer; the funds must be used by provinces and territories for the purposes of "maintaining the national criteria" for publicly provided health care in Canada (as set out in the Canada Health Act).
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (French pronunciation: [kɛs də depo e plasmɑ̃ dy kebɛk], CDPQ; English: Quebec Deposit and Investment Fund) is an institutional investor that manages several public and parapublic pension plans and insurance programs in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, also known as the Romanow Report, is a committee study led by Roy Romanow on the future of health care in Canada. It was delivered in November 2002. [1] Romanow recommended sweeping changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of Canada's health care system.
The Canada Health Act covers the services of psychiatrists, medical doctors with additional training in psychiatry. In Canada, psychiatrists tend to focus on the treatment of mental illness with medication. [67] However, the Canada Health Act excludes care provided in a "hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered."
Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.
During the early 1980s, the fund made loans to other provincial governments in Canada. Later the fund's money was used for capital infrastructure projects. [43] To date, over $33 billion has been made available to fund Albertans' priorities, such as health care, education, infrastructure and social programs.
The Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) is the program of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada designed to support the "Canadian innovation ecosystem," [1] which includes providing "funding to innovative sectors" such as "advanced manufacturing, agri-food, clean technology, clean resources, digital industries, and health and biosciences."
The company had "no plan to deal with" the coronavirus and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, 80 people in the care of Extendicare died "after contracting COVID-19". [8] The company spent CA$300,000 of its "own money on COVID-19, while distributing over $10,000,000 to shareholders during the pandemic", according to its May 28 ...