Time for the PMPRB to go

The functional purpose of the PMPRB is no longer relevant.

The PMPRB is clearly annoyed by opposition to the regulation changes. According to an internal document made public by an access to information request from Conservative MP Tom Kmiec, pictured, the PMPRB believes “opponents of the reforms … are spreading disinformation through organized public relations campaigns.”The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NIGEL RAWSON AND BRETT SKINNER

June 17, 2021

Since its establishment in 1987, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), a quasi-judicial federal tribunal, has regulated prices of patented medicines. In 2017, the Liberal federal government

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