A year in which everything seemed to go sidewards for the Liberal government began with a pair of modest victories for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The first, an agreement signed in early February with the provinces, to bolster health care transfers by $46.2 billion. The premiers left Ottawa grumbling, as they always do, about the size of the cash infusion, but all agreed to it. Trudeau predicted the new money would “protect our health care system now and into the future.” For the moment, there was a measure of rare peace with the provinces on health funding.
