"Significantly reduce wait times for life-saving medications. Canadian patients wait too long for public access to medicines following Health Canada approval, compared to patients in peer countries, putting us behind other G7 countries. By cutting red tape without compromising on safety we will cut this timeline while maintaining all relevant safety standards, supporting our research community, and delivering lifesaving medicines more quickly." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"We will get the job done, putting in place a universal program within four years. Mark Carney’s proposed cuts would stop pharmacare in its tracks. During the first year of the next Parliament, we will get deals with every province to cover diabetes medications and birth control. And we will expand that first step by covering essential medicines by the end of the first year, building to full coverage by the end of four years." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19