Health innovation groups say they hope governments’ ‘Buy Canadian’ mentality hits their sector

Large American firms are ‘kind of monopolizing’ health care procurement in Canada, says Council of Canadian Innovators’ Skaidra Puodžiūnas.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his government will implement a 'Buy Canadian' policy to boost this country's economy and local companies. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY TESSIE SANCI

November 3, 2025

As Prime Minister Mark Carney and multiple premiers promise to boost economic growth in part through “Buy Canadian” efforts, health innovation organizations say they are hoping this attitude will trickle down to the procurement of homegrown technologies that often lose o...

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