Finance committee  As stated in our brief, we feel that for any plan—and we focused particularly on a pharmacare plan—to be successful, strong federal leadership would be required to engage the provinces and set the standards. We wish that all the provisions of the Canada Health Act and the Medical

Finance committee  Okay. However, the capacity of provinces to implement pharmacare-like strategies is limited in the absence of a national formulary. C.D. Howe pharmacare expert Steve Morgan cautions that any attempt to institute a national pharmacare strategy requires active leadership from the

Finance committee  I'd like to thank the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for this opportunity to present on behalf of Canadian Doctors for Medicare. My name is Dr. Richard Klasa. I'm a medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver and a clinical research scientist at the r