Emergency Funds to Provinces and Territories for Vaccines and Health Care

Backgrounder

As first announced on March 25, 2021, the Government of Canada is providing an emergency top-up of $5 billion for provinces and territories – specifically $4 billion through the Canada Health Transfer to help provinces and territories address immediate health care system pressures and $1 billion to support vaccine rollout campaigns across the country.

Below is the breakdown of the funds each province and territory is receiving today from the Government of Canada, distributed equally per capita, as part of this additional pandemic support:

Table 1
Emergency Funds to Provinces and Territories for Vaccines and Health Care
Province/Territory Canada Health Transfer
One-time top-up
Vaccine Rollout
Support
British Columbia $541,788,000 $135,447,000
Alberta $465,330,000 $116,333,000
Saskatchewan $124,089,000 $31,022,000
Manitoba $145,208,000 $36,302,000
Ontario $1,550,847,000  $387,712,000
Quebec $902,412,000 $225,603,000
New Brunswick $82,196,000  $20,549,000
Prince Edward Island $16,792,000 $4,198,000
Nova Scotia $103,022,000 $25,755,000
Newfoundland and Labrador $55,009,000 $13,752,000
Yukon $4,427,000 $1,107,000
Northwest Territories $4,756,000 $1,189,000
Nunavut $4,124,000 $1,031,000

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