NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will consider calling off the alliance with the Liberals if the government doesn’t introduce and pass a bill for a universal national pharmacare program in Parliament this year.
“We want to see a national framework presented in Parliament, and passed in Parliament before the end of the year,” Singh said on Jan. 19, during the second day of his party’s caucus retreat in Ottawa.
“That’s something we fought for in the agreement, we negotiated, and we expect to be there.”
In March 2022, the NDP entered into an agreement to keep the minority Liberal government in power until 2025. In exchange for the support from the New Democrats, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time that his government will increase spending on health care, including establishing a national pharmacare and dental plan….