For the “postal code lottery” line, I have to give credit where credit is due. It's not my line; it's the line used by the immediate past federal minister of health, Mr. Duclos, in March of 2023 when he announced the go-forward of the plan for drugs for rare disorders. I was there. It was ad libbed by the minister. It wasn't in his prepared text.
It captures the essence of some of the inequities in the lists of drugs that are or aren't covered in various jurisdictions.
I think there is a compelling role for the Government of Canada and the Parliament of Canada to make financial contributions, so that access gets not to the lowest common denominator but to a much higher common denominator for all patients, no matter where they live and no matter what postal code in Canada they're in.