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Canada

Justin Trudeau

In office

Prime Minister

Liberal Party of Canada

2,889 days in office

42nd Parliament of Canada
03 Dec 2015 - 11 Sep 2019

43rd Parliament of Canada
05 Dec 2019 - 15 Aug 2021

44th Parliament of Canada
22 Nov 2021 - Present

The Canadian federal election of 2021 (officially the 44th Canadian general election) took place on September 20, 2021, and elected members of the House of Commons to Canada’s 44th Parliament. The Liberal Party, led by outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won 160 seats, forming a second consecutive minority government.

The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases. This number was reduced to 352 by an extensive, multi-coder process of sorting promises according to their degree of precision and importance to society. Unclear and less important promises were removed from the analysis.

For an analysis of the achievements of Justin Trudeau’s first government (2015-2019), see Birch and Pétry (2019), Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government. 353 promises and a mandate for change, published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval.

In partnership with

Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)

Center for Public Policy Analysis (CAPP)

Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Digital Social Sciences (CLESSN)

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)

Promise History

Health and Social Services

44th Parliament of Canada

3.12.11 - “A re-elected Liberal government will […] [p]rovide $3.2 billion to the provinces and territories for the hiring of 7,500 new family doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners. “

Forward. For Everyone

Published: Nov 2021

Justification

This bilateral agreement crowns a cycle of agreements between the federal government and each of the provinces for federal health transfers, focused on the specific needs of the provinces according to government priorities, which include the increase in the number of health personnel.

“Ottawa and Quebec have finally reached an agreement in principle to increase federal health transfers by $900 million a year over 10 years, Radio-Canada has learned. […]Quebec was the last province not to reach an agreement with the federal government. […]Quebec is free to invest in the health priorities of its choice”

Ottawa and Quebec reach agreement in principle on health transfers-Radio-Canada

Published: Mar 2024

“Today, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, alongside the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, announced a new $3.1 billion agreement to improve health care in Ontario. This investment will help increase access to family doctors, reduce wait times, hire more health care workers, and ensure faster care for Canadians “

Cutting wait times, delivering better health care in Ontario-Newswire

Published: Feb 2024

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Justification

The funding is partial and does not directly target the needs for health staff, but these are among the federal priorities that can be selected by the provinces as part of this funding.

“The new fund proposed by the federal government also includes an envelope of $25 billion over 10 years to be distributed among the provinces through bilateral agreements […to be] accompanied by “an action plan adapted to the needs of each province” to advance “common priorities” identified by the federal government, [including] data sharing between provinces, better access to family doctors, reduction of surgical waiting lists and funding for mental health services. To access these funds, provinces will have to choose which of these priorities they wish to pursue”