No funding boost coming for MUHC, Gaétan Barrette says

Health Minister Gaétan Barrette says he won’t boost the funding of the McGill University Health Centre despite the pleas of cancer patients and the physically disabled at an emotional news conference Thursday.
Although Barrette acknowledged that the government is flush with $300 million in additional health funds, he argued that it wouldn’t make sense to use some of it to cover the MUHC’s budget deficit.
“I have an additional $300 million of new money, right,&rdquo