Internal emails reveal the extent of an internal crisis inside the PMPRB that led to the acting chairperson’s resignation last fall.
Duclos finally broke his silence in a November letter to ask the board to “consider pausing the consultation process” to work “collaboratively” with stakeholders on the proposed changes. That apparently drove a wedge between Forcier, who was willing to agree to the minister’s request, and other PMRB leaders who wanted to let the consultation process run its course, and had grown to mistrust Duclos’ motives.
The PMPRB went ahead with drawing up a new list of comparative countries last year, but the board’s workthat the PMPRB is overstepping its role, and that the new formulas could lead pharmaceutical companies to determine some new medicines aren’t worth offering in Canada, leaving patients without access to them.
“The receptionist advised me that Mr. Bock wished to know the reason for my call. I responded, ‘the PMPRB Guidelines’. She advised me Mr. Bock would not take my call,” read Clark’s notes from that day. Forcier eventually secured a meeting with the deputy health minister, Stephen Lucas, on Nov. 30. Text messages show that she was already considering suspending the consultations on the guidelines as per the minister’s request. She told Clark the reason was because she did not want to “cause a crisis.”During Forcier’s meeting with Lucas, she and Forcier were exchanging texts .
The PMPRB board — composed of Forcier, Matthew Herder, Carolyn Kobernick and Dr. Ingrid Sketris — convened later in the day after Forcier had her meeting with the deputy health minister. Article content The following day, on Dec. 3, 2022, Forcier said she would consider seeking an independent, outside legal opinion on whether she as acting chair had the authority to make the decision to pause consultations on guidelines.
Forcier shot back in another email that she was facing “insubordination and attacks on reputation,” that her words were “being twisted,” that she was being “smeared,” and hinted she might be taking legal action against Clark for defamation.
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