Bill C-213 (Historical)

Canada Pharmacare Act

An Act to enact the Canada Pharmacare Act

This bill is from the 43rd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2020.

Sponsor

Peter Julian NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (House), as of Feb. 27, 2020
(This bill did not become law.)

Similar bills

C-64 (44th Parliament, 1st session) Law Pharmacare Act

C-340 (44th Parliament, 1st session) Canada Pharmacare Act

C-213 (43rd Parliament, 2nd session) Canada Pharmacare Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-213s:

C-213 (2025) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (cessation of refugee protection)

C-213 (2021) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate)

C-213 (2016) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age)

Opposition Motion—Federal Intrusions in the Exclusive Jurisdictions of Quebec and the ProvincesBusiness of SupplyGovernment Orders

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NDP

Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC

Mr. Speaker, it is great to see the member for Winnipeg North stand in this place to loudly proclaim his support for the important programs of pharmacare and dental care. This is even more so due to the fact that, in the 43rd Parliament, when it came to Bill C-213, introduced by the member for New Westminster—Burnaby, and a motion on dental care, which was introduced by former MP Jack Harris, that member and the entire Liberal caucus voted against those measures. They voted against pharmacare and against dental care.

I am glad to see that, on the road to Damascus, the Liberals have arrived at their conversion. I just want to know what changed. What led the Liberals to suddenly have this vision that these were, in fact, the right programs to put in place now? Could it be that the New Democrats forced them to do it?