Opinion: After years of retreats and only part of the reforms still intact, Trudeau’s government quietly folded its tent and let the industry have its way.
Contrary to the Ottawa buzz, our prime minister isn’t too woke; he’s too weak.
But Justin Trudeau purports to defend the public interest and manages to win over lots of progressive voters by appearing to do so. Out of the limelight, however, he’s weak standing up to the powerful — as we can see in the sad case of his feeble attempt to control spiralling drug prices. This highly effective system was scrapped by the Mulroney government due to pressure from Washington during free trade negotiations in the 1980s. Washington was championing the interests of the big U.S. brand-name drug companies, which always hated compulsory licensing. They preferred outright monopoly.Patent Medicine Prices Review BoardBut the new system never worked very well for Canadians.
So, in 2017, proclaiming his intention to protect Canadians from “excessive drug prices,” Trudeau introduced reforms to make the PMPRB more muscular in order to save Canadians about a billion dollars a year in drug costs.
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