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:
| 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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