Pharmacare for all: we cannot wait for the next health crisis

Our health-care system should not be a patchwork where some Canadians can access the medicine they need while others are left behind.

The promise of pharmacare cannot be one where access depends on what province or territory you happen to call home, writes Gord Johns. Pexels photograph by Kampus Production

Opinion

BY NDP MP GORD JOHNS

September 16, 2026

Shortly after COVID-19 reached the country’s doorstep in the early days of 2020, Canadians learned just how vulnerable our pharmaceutical supply chains could be.

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