Is the Government negotiating away our health care system (medicare)?
• Canada will not negotiate on health care in any of our trade initiatives. • Canada’s trade obligations do not require us to privatize our health care system. • Whether and to what extent Canadian governments reform their health care systems is for Canadians themselves to decide. • We have preserved full policy flexibility for health care in all of our trade agreements. Canadian governments are free to maintain the programs, or make the reforms, that Canadians deem appropriate.
