Dr. Leisha Hawker, president of Doctors Nova Scotia, says improving the primary care clinic structure will help attract new physicians to a province where 130,000 residents are without a family doctor.
The provinces budgeted about $204 billion for healthcare in this fiscal year and the Canada Health Transfer was set at $45 billion, or about 22% of that.
The Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, which represents more than 25,000 construction workers, alleges the labour agreement is restrictive and decreases the number of eligible workers.
The Tory leader echoed criticisms from some premiers that the overall increase falls far short of what provincial and territorial leaders were hoping for.
The meeting was a chance to introduce the IPPC and discuss Indigenous representation in pharmacy, strategies to improve Indigenous health, and anti-Indigenous racism in pharmacy.