Mr. Speaker, during a town hall meeting, the Minister of Seniors said that the government's new Canadian drug agency will save Canadians $3 billion per year—in what, 10 years?
Without the NDP's universal pharmacare plan, private insurance and provincial plans will still be doing their own buying. The Liberals' agency will have little to no buying power to negotiate cheaper drug prices, which seniors desperately need, without buying drugs for all Canadians.
Will the minister come clean and tell seniors the truth, that this Canadian drug agency will not be saving them any money anytime soon?