Pharmacare’s time is now

With a plan and appropriate funding, Parliament has the opportunity to make history and completely realign the way prescription medication is delivered and paid for in Canada.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Associate Finance Minister Mona Fortier, pictured Dec. 17, 2019, during a meeting with provincial finance ministers in Ottawa. In this year’s budget, we are asking the federal government to invest in phase one of the Hoskins report. This would mean that essential medicines would be accessible to all Canadians which would be a meaningful start, writes Hassan Yussuff.

Opinion

BY HASSAN YUSSUFF

February 24, 2020

In the next few weeks, the minister of finance will rise in the House and give a speech laying out the government’s budget priorities for the next year. National pharmacare must be at the top of that list. The three parties who promised pharmacare won a majority of the vote in the October 2019 f...

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