Althea Raj

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678 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jun

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Is Carney Leading a Post-America World? · 5 May 2026 podcast

The big shocker I think for a lot of people was actually childcare, because this was a big program, lots of fanfare when it was announced.

And one of the things that they, so it's kind of funded in different parts, but there's provincial agreements, some of which are like Ontario's and Alberta's are going to end next March.

They need to be renegotiated.

The government is committed to putting more money.

to putting money in the pot but it's getting rid of an infrastructure fund and child care advocates tell me that basically there's not enough money they're not increasing the amount enough to keep this program uh going and we need more child care spaces and the operational funding cannot be used to cover capital expenses because there's not enough in that pot to even cover operational expenses so they're very worried that basically the program is going to die a slow death

And then the other thing is on health care.

The government is ending a bunch of these bilateral agreements that Justin Trudeau had negotiated with the provinces on home care, on long-term care, on mental health and addiction.

And so while the government will continue to increase payments on health care, it's not going to grow by the same escalator.

So now it grows 5% every year.

It will start growing by 3% every year.

And it's getting rid of these bilateral deals.

So now you have a lot of people in the medical community who are like, whoa, we need this money.

You know?

Seniors are they're not they're no fewer seniors.

Health care systems are not in less of a crunch.

And they're pointing out that there is an infrastructure fund in the budget that really just provides funding for like the equivalent of two hospitals, which the country needs more of.

So you have a lot of liberal MPs who are actually did not realize that some of the programs that they are knocking on the door is very proudly to sell may actually be in trouble.

I was like here with, ready to give you some stats.

I think he's meeting with some of them.

I think there's more people.

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