Althea Raj
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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But in the end, before Justin Trudeau left, they only signed deals with British Columbia, Manitoba, the Yukon.
And PI has a different pharmacare deal, which I think covers about 60% of medicines.
And it was kind of run as a pilot program, but it was looped to that.
And they had $1.5 billion for this, 900 of which has been spent.
After the election, Mark Carney's election, and some elections provincially, we had Newfoundland and Labrador say, hey, we would like to join this PharmaCare plan.
And Nova Scotia say, hey, we would like to join this PharmaCare plan.
But there was no movement over the summer.
And Prime Minister Carney was asked about this in September, and he said, we are going to offer basically the same deal.
In the election clap form, the Liberals promised to safeguard PharmaCare.
They would not cut it like they said Pierre Poiliev would cut it.
And he would offer the same deal to these provinces, but nothing has happened.
Now, the health minister's office, Masha Michelle's office says they are studying the rollout of the current deals and they're honoring current agreements.
So although there's $600 million left in the pot, they don't want to expand that.
There is no new money in the fiscal update or in last November's budget for PharmaCare.
So PharmaCare is ending.
The government officials tell us that when a decision hasn't been made, you see dash, dash, dash in the budget.
There are no dash, dash, dashes.
Pharmacare, if you are one of the 17% of Canadians who have access to the federal Pharmacare program through your province,
get ready for it to end in 2029.
That being said, I think with the outcry that this piece has caused, the government might be looking at making some changes.
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