Summary:

  • Creation of universal pharmacare program is a condition of Liberal-NDP supply-and-confidence deal
  • In 2018, the Liberals appointed Dr. Eric Hoskins, a former Ontario Liberal health minister, to chair an advisory council to assess a national pharmacare plan. The council’s report, released the following year, recommended the establishment of a universal, single-payer public pharmacare systen
  • The NDP’s health critic says their bill follows the council’s recommendations and the principles of the Canada Health Act. He said the proposal allows the government to negotiate with provinces and territories on a pharmacare plan, and would allow Ottawa to withhold funding from provinces if they don’t comply with the act.
    • Mongostein
      6·
      1 year ago

      100% man. The NDP is the only party even trying to help the little guy IMO

    • bishopolis
      1·
      1 year ago

      with only 25/338 MPs

      The key here is that Mr Singh is pushing forth legislation so important that he’s willing to kill the Reds’ administration over. And Justin needs to be okay with it as long as he plays the reluctant puppet. It needs to be that “important to NDP” and also “not deal-breaking for Libs” kind of plan that Mr Singh presents.

      The NDP can’t do that with just anything, and there is a lot of worry about the fringe plans of a federal NDP party without a Mulcair or a well-minded Layton at the helm. Mr Singh has trumpeted his share of causes that look bad in the math, after all.

      Having to present the most important of the palatable programmes has worked well as a filter.