Health Care

Federal Government Dept: The group heads into three days of meetings Sunday that were originally intended to discuss new ways of doing things in the health-care sector. But the gathering threatens to get hijacked by the kind of infighting that was common before the last 10-year accord was signed in 2004 and many premiers are looking for adjustments to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's formula that would better benefit their provinces, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "You can't do it well from Ottawa. One of the highlights of the federal government's announcement in December is they're vacating that field and leaving it to the premiers to whom it rightfully belongs." Premiers will arrive in Victoria this week to hash over their response to Ottawa's edict on health-care funding that has left many premiers east of Manitoba seething, and the western ones celebrating the prospect of the federal government finally getting out of the way. "Premiers have sat around these tables for 30 years and said: We don't want the federal government to tell us what to do about health care because we have a constitutional responsibility for looking after it,'" B.C. Premier Christy Clark said in an interview Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.