Liberals fund a framework for the Canadian Drug Agency, setting the stage for coordination with the provinces. But there's no promise for when — or if — coverage will kick in
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But for all the fanfare about how the Canadian Drug Agency could improve all of that, the budget does not include funding to create such a thing quite yet, but rather, funding to create the Canadian Drug Agency Transition Office—a meeting to plan a meeting, if you will. The committee to which Morneau referred is the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, an entity created by last year’s budget and headed by Dr. Eric Hoskins. The council released a brief and general interim report earlier this month, laying out a handful of the key elements a national pharmacare program should address, and the final report is expected sometime between now and June.
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