THE NEWSPAPER | Quebec is set to sign the federal health transfers agreement, though Premier François Legault’s demands are far from meeting reports The Canadian Press.

A letter signed by the finance and health ministers and the minister responsible for Canadian relations and Canadian Francophonie was reportedly sent to the federal government yesterday.

“As indicated by the Prime Minister of Quebec and repeated during our meeting, the federal funding on offer is well below what Quebecers have a right to expect,” Ministers Eric Girard, Christian Dubé and Jean-François Roberge wrote loudly again The Canadian Press.

They reiterate that their government intends to use the funds within healthcare facilities “without federal government restrictions.”

The urgency to meet the needs of the healthcare system is also being felt, and “for this reason, Quebec intends to use its share of the federal funding proposed on February 7,” according to one of the excerpts of the letter obtained by The Canadian Press.

The provinces had banded together for months to get Ottawa to increase federal funding for health care from 22% to 35%.

The provinces have withdrawn

However, the provincial ministers had yielded to an inadmissibility end and then reconciled themselves to signing bilateral agreements with the Trudeau government.

The Canadian Prime Minister indicated on Wednesdaythat Quebec intends to sign an agreement shortly.

“We have now reached an agreement with nine provinces and plan to announce agreements with the last and three territories very soon,” he said during a news conference in British Columbia.

At the end of yesterday evening Prime Minister Legault had not yet been confirmed in office protocol his intentions in this case.