Canada handed its bad guy role in Trump’s ‘America First’ election hype

On pharmaceuticals, Canada appears to be the most salient miscreant in Trump’s contrived attempt to finally do something about the drug price outrage in the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump is applauded as he signs a series of executive orders on lowering drug prices July 24. Promising cheaper imported medicines is an obvious pre-election gambit for Trump, even if it is unlikely to ever happen, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—In keeping with the all-encompassing Alice-in-the-Crazy-House approach adopted by Donald Trump in his flailing re-election bid, the U.S. president is rolling out his plan to make foreigners—namely Canadians—compensate Americans being gouged by Big Pharma. It’s only one aspect of the...

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