Orttawa – As Budget 2023 omits pharmacare bill promised in 2022, Jagmeet Singh, federal NDP leader, said: “What we were able to force the government to do is what we could negotiate.” The Liberals, in their 2019 election platform, promised to implement national universal pharmacare. Similar commitments were made in throne speeches and mandate letters to the federal health minister, Jean-Yves Duclos. The panel, led by former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, said that such a plan would save Canadians an estimated $5 billion every year.
