The executive director of Canada's drug pricing regulator is stepping down -- just days after another member resigned because of concerns that the federal government was undermining the independent body's work.
Douglas Clark, with the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, announced Friday he would be leaving his post after almost a decade with the regulator that oversees the prices of medicines sold in Canada.
Herder, who published his letter on social media, said he no longer believed it was possible to serve the public good in his role, which he had held since 2018. The pharmaceutical industry challenged the proposed regulations, and when Quebec's Court of Appeal ruled that some parts were unconstitutional, the federal government didn't seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
"In the absence of the political courage to support meaningful policy reform, the position of the has become untenable," Herder said.
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