New Democratic Party 🍁 Nouveau Parti Démocratique

Save you money with lower drug and dental costs

New Democrats believe in a Canada where nobody is forced to pay out-of-pocket to get the care they need. Universal healthcare is part of our national identity. We were instrumental in the creation of Canada’s Medicare system in the 1960s, and more recently we were proud to force the Liberal government to take the first tangible steps towards a universal public pharmacare program – years after they first promised it and failed to deliver.

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.

With Trump threatening tariffs on Canadian drugs, pharmacare isn’t just a health policy—it’s a matter of national security, because no country should be forced to rely on American pharmaceutical giants or a volatile U.S. president to access life-saving medicine.

Together with the launch of the Canadian Dental Care Plan, we have launched the most significant expansion of Medicare in generations.