Reporter: “Will you dismantle—will you dismantle pharmacare?”
Text on screen: When not avoiding questions about Canada’s new pharmacare plan, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been bashing it.
His talking points sound familiar…
Poilievre: “That will make you worse off”
Big Pharma : “…that would leave most Canadians worse off.”
Poilievre: “Most of your listeners already have coverage through their workplace.”
Big Pharma: “…a single-payer model that would disrupt coverage for the Almost 27 million Canadians who have coverage through their employers.”
Poilievre: “would ban you from having workplace drug coverage.”
Big Pharma: “would probably prohibit purchasing complementary insurance.”
Poilievre: “at higher cost to Canadian taxpayers.”
Big Pharma: “..costly for taxpayers”
Text on screen: Poilievre and the pharma lobby want you to believe free, publicly-provided medicines are bad for you.
A new pharmacare plan won’t hurt Canadians, but it will cut into Big Pharma’s massive profits.
Poilievre: “Big Pharma’s dirty, disgusting actions against our communities.”
Text on screen: Are they dirty and disgusting, or his new speech writers?
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