Statement made on 02 December 2009 by Senator Catherine Callbeck
Hon. Catherine S. Callbeck:
Honourable senators, my question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. In 2002, the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology produced a report. The leader was a member of that committee. One recommendation in that report was that we have a catastrophic drug program.
Two years later, in 2004, a ministerial task force began work on that plan and that task force included the federal, provincial and territorial ministers.
In 2006, we had a progress report on that plan. However, here we are three years later and we have heard nothing more. Has this government abandoned the idea of having a catastrophic drug plan?
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