Drug Shortage

Shortages of drugs that include some cancer treatments are in critically short supply.

“Pharmacies didn’t sell much in the way of cold and fever medicines during the lockdown, but now the lockdown is lifted, we have to buy medicines just in case.”

Government efforts to combat Canada’s critical drug shortage are only a temporary band-aid solution, and a much broader strategy is needed to address the fundamental issues, says a Queens University professor who has been studying the shortage and runs a website devoted to it.

The NDP want the government to put a plan in place to immediately address the current drug shortage. A motion to that effect was discussed Wednesday and received Tory support.