Trudeau to meet with premiers next month to discuss health-care deal | FULL

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with Canada’s premiers next month to hammer out a deal on health-care funding, following months of significant pressure from the premiers for a summit.

Trudeau said Wednesday he has invited the premiers to a “working meeting” on Feb. 7 in Ottawa to share the federal government’s plans to support healthcare systems across Canada, and to hear their priorities for investment.

“Let’s be clear, providing money is certainly part of the solution, and we will do that, but funding alone won’t solve the issues that we’re seeing,” he told reporters, speaking from Hamilton, Ont.

“Reliable, universal public health care is fundamental to Canadians, and we need to keep it that way. … We’ve got a big, amazing country built on strong, progressive institutions like health care that Canadians care deeply about and we’re doing the hard work of strengthening health care and making sure that we all live up to the promise of this country.”

Trudeau made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday amid the Liberal Part's three-day cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ont.

In addition, when asked about the war in Ukraine, Trudeau said that Canada is looking "very closely" at what more it could do to support the eastern European nation amid the Russian invasion. This comes after Germany approved sending Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine.

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