NDP Will Call Off Alliance With Liberals If No Pharmarcare Bill This Year, Singh Says

NDP Will Call Off Alliance With Liberals If No Pharmarcare Bill This Year, Singh Says
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh delivers a speech at a three-day caucus retreat in Ottawa on Jan. 18, 2023. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Andrew Chen
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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 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.