| Updated March 4, 2021 The Canadian Press Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc appears via videoconference during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, on Jan. 15, 2021. OTTAWA — The federal government is ready to negotiate unconditional and recurring health care transfers after the pandemic is under control, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday. “If the economic recovery is clear, if COVID-19 — and, God, we all hope that’s the case — is looking like it is in the rearview mirror this summer, that would be the time where the government of Canada would be in a position to say to [the provinces] this is the amount of money that we are prepared to spend in an ongoing, recurring basis in an unconditional way for health care, for public health care in the provinces,” Leblanc said on CBC News Network’s “Power & Politics” program.