Public Pharmacare Now
(2023)
Why Now?
With the March 2022 confidence and supply agreement with the NDP, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government committed to passing a Canada Pharmacare Act by the end of 2023. We need to make sure this promise is fulfilled. But Big Pharma and its insurance industry allies are working to torpedo the whole project. This is a fight we can win, if we organize. We have a clear plan for the public, universal pharmacare we want. We have a minority government vulnerable to popular pressure. We have a huge majority of support – 9 in 10 people in Canada say they want pharmacare. Our opponents - Big Pharma and the insurance industry – are powerful, but they also are widely reviled and untrusted. And thanks to the supply-and-confidence agreement, pharmacare is on the political agenda in 2023.
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We need to raise the political temperature on our Members of Parliament – especially Liberal MPs - to make pharmacare happen. They need to hear how important this issue is to their constituents, and they need to feel that there will be significant electoral consequences if they fail to follow through.
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Townhalls
By uniting in cities and towns across Canada to demand pharmacare now, we can win an historic expansion of our cherished public health care system. Help make pharmacare a reality by hosting a public town hall in your community.
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