The wait for pharmacare has gone on long enough

When the NDP and the Liberals signed their confidence-and-supply agreement in March, one factor that generated numerous pleasure was a pharmacare plan. That is one thing that has been promised for greater than 50 years, because the Hall Royal Commission report established medicare within the Sixties. Then got here the April budget. The place was pharmacare? On web page 150, $35-million to Prince Edward Island over 4 years was claimed as “advanc[ing] the implementation of common nationwide pharmacare.” On web page 151, the promise of pharmacare was repeated. That was all. No dedication of cash. No timetable.