Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 18: Health (18-24)

Federal Health Budgets 2016-2022

April 7, 2022
Budget 2016
  • $270M over 5 years for the construction, renovation and repair of nursing stations, residences for health care workers, and health offices that provide health information on reserve.
  • $69 million over 3 years for mental wellness teams and crisis stabilization
Budget 2017 = $828.2M over 5 years
  • Chronic and infectious diseases: $50.2M
  • Maternal and Child Health: $83.2M
  • Primary care: $72.1M
  • Mental wellness: $118.2M
  • Home and palliative care: $184.6M
  • Non-Insured Health Benefits Program: $305.0
  • Drug strategy—harm reduction measures: $15.0
  • (all above amounts over 5 years)
Budget 2018 = $1.497B (5 year totals)
  • Access to critical medical care and services: $498M
  • Addictions treatment and prevention: $200M ($40M ongoing)
  • Capacity-building in First Nations communities: $235M
  • Non-Insured Health Benefits Program: $490M
  • Supporting Inuit health priorities: $68M
    • Includes $27million over 5 years for eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat
  • Métis health data and health strategy
Budget 2019
  • Supporting Inuit children: $220M (over 5 years)
  • Improved Assisted Living and Long-Term Care: $44M (over 2 years)
  • National Inuit Suicide prevention Strategy: $50 over 10 years and #5M ongoing
Budget 2021
  • COVID-19 response: $1.2B
    • $478.1M to support public health response
    • $760.8M for Indigenous Community Support Fund
  • Maintain essential health services for First Nations and Inuit: $1.4B + $40.6 ongoing
    • $774.6M over 5 years for Non-Insured Health Benefits Program
    • $354M over 5 years to increase number of nurses and medical professionals in remote First Nations communities
    • $107.1M over three years to transform how health care services are delivered ny First Nations communities
    • $125.2M to support First Nations reliable access to clean water and help ensure the safe delivery of health and social services on reserve
    • $22.7M over 5 years to help First Nations and Inuit manage health impacts of climate change
  • Distinctions-based Mental Wellness Strategy
    • $597.6M over three years for First Nations, Métis and Inuit
Budget 2022 = $686.1M (2022-23)
  • $268 million in 2022-23 to continue to provide high-quality health care in remote and isolated First Nations communities on-reserve.
  • $190.5 million in 2022-23 to Indigenous Services Canada for the Indigenous Community Support Fund to help Indigenous communities and organizations mitigate the ongoing impacts of COVID-19.
  • $227.6M over 2 years to maintain trauma-informed, culturally-apprpriate, Indigenous-led services to improve mental wellness, and to support efforts initiated through Budget 2021 too co-develop distinctions-based mental health and wellness strategies