Canada's finance ministers will sit down again in Ottawa this morning, joined later in the day by the country's health ministers, to try to come to terms on a new accord for health-care funding.
But with the Trudeau Liberals planning to stick to the former Conservative government plan to reduce yearly health-care transfer increases to the provinces to three per cent, it could get testy.
Finance ministers met over dinner last night with their federal counterpart Bill Morneau, who said maintaining the status quo of six-per-cent annual health increases is ``out of the realm'' of anything he'd consider.
Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said the lack of negotiations and Ottawa's ultimatum is ``totally insulting and inappropriate.''
Morneau has said Ottawa would be putting forward an idea focused on mental health and home care, with significant cash over a period longer than five years.