Althea Raj
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678 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Althea Raj’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I mean, it's a column to your point.
My argument is I think the Mark Carney has abandoned progressives or is taking them for granted is I think a better way to put it.
Basically that argument has mostly been formed around climate policy.
I would say over the last year, people who feel that,
They thought they knew Mark Carney and now they're surprised that he's probably going to build another pipeline.
And they feel disappointed with some of the moves or some of the trades he has been willing to do with Danielle Smith in Alberta on the MOU with the pipeline.
But one of the things that liberals, especially liberal MPs, love to talk about is pharmacare and childcare and certain things that you associate with the liberal party like healthcare.
And one thing I was surprised to see in the fiscal update is that the government is pretty clear that it's actually making cuts to certain programs.
Now, the government will argue with me that programs that are ending are not cuts.
But if you had money last year and you have no money next year, most people on the street would consider that a cut.
And it also means that they won't be able to do what they want.
what people thought the Liberals were going to be doing.
So let's say on PharmaCare and the fiscal update, there's no new money.
PharmaCare was started because of pressure from the NDP in that agreement that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh signed, where they would have the baby steps to national PharmaCare program.
It would start off with free diabetes medicine and free contraception, and they would study the rollout and that with the aim of rolling out more medicines in the future.
Universal drug coverage was the goal behind it.
The Liberals were a little bit lukewarm, but Mark Holland, who was the health minister at the time, really was assured that they met well and they really did believe in this.
And they were really just, it was not like a little candy to the NDP to keep them happy.
They really wanted to study this and see if they could do it.
Some of the agreements took longer to negotiate, for example, with British Columbia, because they already had some provincial programs that offered contraception, for example.
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