‘We will not be dictated to’: Quebec premier Legault warns Ottawa over health care
Quebec Premier Francois Legault told Ottawa on Wednesday to stay out of the province’s business on health care.
“We will not be dictated to by the federal government,” Legault told reporters in Quebec City as he entered his limousine.
The strong words were in reaction to news that Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor threatened the province last summer over its tolerance of private health care services.
Petitpas Taylor wrote a letter to former Quebec health minister Gaetan Barrette in August, warning him that Ottawa would cut health care transfer payments to the province if it continued to allow patients to pay out of pocket for medical exams.