There will be afternoon sittings of the Legislature from Monday to Thursday. On the Order Paper are second readings for both the Red Tape Reduction Statutes Act and the Financial Statutes Amendment Act.
The 2023-24 Main Estimates Considerations continue. These are a series of Committee meetings scrutinizing the individual budgets for each Ministry. Rather than list the details of every meeting here, we’ve written an explainer that includes a list of which department is attending which Committee meeting and when.
The federal government will be withholding $82 million in Canada Health Transfers from the provinces, including $13.8 million from Alberta, due to patient charges for things like telemedicine that Ottawa believes are medically necessary and should be provided at no cost. Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping says discussions about the interpretation of "medically necessary" have been ongoing between the federal government and provinces.
