International Trade committee  My presentation this time is on behalf of myself. For the past 25 years, I have worked with refugees and newcomers to Canada, and from the standpoint of human rights, and as a mother and a grandmother who wants to leave a better world to my children and grandchildren, I'm speakin

International Trade committee  Many of the drugs that are being introduced into our country have been introduced through back doors, like many of the pharmaceutical companies I was mentioning before. They've prepared this training, or presentations for the doctors. They're basically enhancing the new preparati

International Trade committee  No, not evergreening, just the regular.... The facts have been analyzed in the OECD countries, who pays the most per comparative population for drugs, and we are really in the highest.... It's not necessarily evergreening. Evergreening is the new measure that the companies are th

International Trade committee  Before the agreement was signed by the Canadian government, personally, we weren't. We don't know whether our national organization was, but, no, we were never....

International Trade committee  May I answer?

International Trade committee  On the affordability piece, just opening the market doesn't mean that the prices are going to go down, because the main aim of the pharmaceutical companies—and they're the ones who drew up the TPP agreement—is to keep the patents on medications, which keeps the medications at hig

International Trade committee  I work in a nursing home. We have seniors coming to our facility and we see them come with medications that are totally new, brand names that are very similar to the generic drugs we have. I was concerned with the simple diabetic drug people have been taking. All the pharmaceutic

International Trade committee  All right. Thank you. Chair and members of the Standing Committee on International Trade, thank you for the opportunity to address the committee on the issues that concern us. Both Dr. Tippett and I are health care professionals and have more than 30 years of experience each in