(OTTAWA) Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is expected to introduce a dental bill on Tuesday that will seek to allow the government to send checks to low- and middle-income families to help pay for dental care bills. oral health services for their children.
Posted at 6:10 a.m.
The benefit for eligible children under 12 is the first step in a broader government plan for dental care. This file is a key element of the confidence agreement between the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party.
In particular, the government will pay families up to $650 per child per year, depending on their household income.
Families will need to apply to the Canada Revenue Agency and certify that their child is not covered by private dental insurance. They will also have to confirm that they have dental expenses and that they will keep their receipts.
The government hopes to be able to distribute the first checks by the beginning of December.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health is still working on a more comprehensive dental plan, which it hopes to have fully implemented by 2025.
Mr. Duclos should present his bill on Tuesday, the first day of the new parliamentary session in the House of Commons.
The fight against inflation should be one of the most discussed topics on Parliament Hill in the coming weeks. We will also have to watch the first exchanges between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
Observers waiting for this first confrontation will have to wait until Thursday, however, because Mr. Trudeau will be in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday for the United Nations General Assembly.
With Mia Rabson