Canada’s provincial and territorial well being ministers are assembly with their federal counterpart in Halifax this week, and the New Democrats are urging them to ink pharmacare offers.
The nationwide pharmacare legislation requires the federal authorities to signal offers with provinces and territories to begin funding protection of contraception and diabetes medicines.
Federal Well being Minister Mark Holland has mentioned he hoped to have offers signed by this spring, however to this point solely B.C. has signed a memorandum of understanding.
Different provinces have pledged to begin overlaying some medicines on their very own.
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In a letter to Holland, NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh and well being critic Peter Julian are additionally asking the Liberals to hurry up growth of the dental care program, which they are saying is almost a month late.
Each packages have been a key a part of the supply-and-confidence deal that noticed the NDP preserve the minority Liberal authorities in energy from 2022 till final fall.
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