One of the Liberals’ outstanding promises for 2023 in their deal with the NDP was conspicuously absent from the federal budget.
The confidence-and-supply agreement requires the government to table legislation on pharmacare by the end of the calendar year in exchange for the NDP’s support on key votes in the House of Commons.
Both parties say that is still on track to happen, but even if a bill is introduced by December, it’s unclear when a pharmacare system could be up and running.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says that when the deal was struck, the Liberals wouldn’t go beyond promising a legislative framework….