Event: Pharmacare town halls near you!

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Dear Friend,

For years, the Liberal party has been promising to implement pharmacare – a public, universal prescription drug coverage program that would enable people in Canada to get the medicine they need when they need it, not just when they can pay for it.

Public pharmacare would truly be life-changing for more than 3.4 million people in Canada who currently can’t afford to take their medication as prescribed, and the millions more for whom high drug prices are an incredible financial burden.

A year ago, the Liberals and NDP promised to deliver pharmacare legislation by the end of 2023. Since then, Big Pharma and insurance industry lobbyists opposed to pharmacare have met with federal government officials 150 times – about 3 or 4 times per week – and we haven’t seen a pharmacare bill tabled, or any money set aside for pharmacare in the federal budget.

It’s never been clearer to me that the reason the Liberals haven’t implemented pharmacare yet isn’t the cost or the complexity – it’s that this government is representing the pharmaceutical and insurance industry, not people.

Will you help change this?

We’re organizing town halls across the country to spotlight the many, many stories of people struggling with the high cost of medication. As the cost of everything – including medication – continues to climb, communities that have been made vulnerable by capitalism, racism, and other systems of oppression are experiencing heightened levels of stress and pain when it comes to accessing prescription medications.

We need pharmacare, and we need it now. To get this incredible expansion of public health care across the finish line, we’re organizing a series of town halls across the country. So far, we have events organized in:

  • Halifax, NS – April 24
  • Fredericton, NB – April 25
  • Charlottetown, PEI – April 26
  • Guelph, ON - May 2
  • Sydney, NS – May 8
  • Antigonish, NS – May 9
  • Toronto, ON – May 15
  • Kitchener-Waterloo, ON – May 16
  • London, ON – May 17
Click here to register to attend an event near you! Don’t see your community on the list? Sign up to host a town hall! We’ve created this toolkit to guide you in the process, and our staff are here to support you in hosting a town hall in your community.

We’ll be inviting MPs to attend these town halls so they can hear from real people about the impact that high drug prices have on their lives and in their community, and to see the power we’re building together behind this demand. Nik Barry-Shaw

In solidarity,

Nik Barry-Shaw
Trade and Privatization Campaigner
The Council of Canadians

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