Canada's Pharmacare Bill Disappointing
The NDP/Liberal coalition Pharmacare Bill got a nudge to the finish line, which satisfies Jagmeet/Justin's stay in power strategy. This coalition is smoke and mirrors and a total failure for Canadians
Is It All Just Political?
The Liberal-NDP supply-and-confidence deal has passed another test. The two parties managed to table a pharmacare bill before the March 1 deadline. But the compromise legislation is a limited program, supplying universal, single-payer coverage to only two classes of drugs.
In fact the program seems to be a program that was rammed out to put the promises to rest. Quite disappointing.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the government doesn’t make good on pharmacare legislation by March, that would kill the Liberal-NDP political pact.
But he’s making it clear that any collapse in the deal, which is meant to hold off a federal election until next year, would be the Liberals’ fault.
Singh has been talking tough this week about the looming deadline to table a bill, and met with the prime minister Monday to lay out his expectations.
Reporters lobbed questions at Singh today about what consequences he’s willing to bring down on the Liberals.
He says if the Liberals don’t deliver by March 1, they would be turning their back on the parties’ agreement — and he warns he won’t extend that deadline any further.
The Liberals and the NDP originally struck their deal in 2022, months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected with a minority mandate for a second time in a row.
Since then, polls have shown the Opposition Conservatives rising in popularity across the country under the leadership of Pierre Poilievre.
That leaves the Liberals and NDP at risk of losing seats the next time Canadians go to the polls, with a federal election scheduled for fall 2025 at the latest.
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