Roughly half of the operating revenues of Canadian universities comes
from provincial governments. Only 28 percent of revenues comes from
students’ tuition fees. There is an active debate in Canada about how
much students should be paying toward the full costs of their post-
secondary education.
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Healthcare
In Canada, basic healthcare is financed mainly by the provincial
governments, with significant transfers from the federal government
under the CHT. In most provinces, residents pay nothing to receive
medical attention—healthcare is free to users and is financed out of the
government’s general tax revenues. Though healthcare is publicly
financed, physicians and private hospitals working on a “fee for service”
basis form the core of Canada’s healthcare delivery system. Thus, the -
Canadian healthcare system is based on public financing but private
delivery.