Essentially, we talk to the provinces all the time at the deputy minister level in terms of our engagement with them, speaking about priorities in health and how to improve the health care system—issues like health human resources, as discussed, and digital health, virtual care and how our health system is transforming.
I can say that the Government of Canada provides a significant amount of funding to the provinces and territories, with $41.9 billion in cash supports to provinces and territories through the CHT, growing to $43.1 billion in 2021-22 and $45.2 billion in 2022-23. This is stable, predictable funding for the provinces and territories, in addition to the $2 billion that I spoke about with respect to the surgical backlogs.
In fact, the government provided significant support to the provinces and territories throughout the pandemic. Eight out of 10 dollars provided came from the federal government to support provinces and territories.