The Liberals only went along with a very limited pharmacare program because they NDP could topple them. They vilified the NDP more than the Conservatives in the election campaign, and now that the NDP was decimated because progressive voters wanted to make sure Poilievre didn't get elected, the Liberals don't need to pretend they care about pharmacare any more.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
83 points (95.6% liked)
Canada
10222 readers
445 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Related Communities
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
- Anmore (BC)
- Burnaby (BC)
- Calgary (AB)
- Comox Valley (BC)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Guelph (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Niagara Falls (ON)
- Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Squamish (BC)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Whistler (BC)
- Windsor (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Hockey
- Main: c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- Montréal Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
- Main: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
💻 Schools / Universities
- BC | UBC (U of British Columbia)
- BC | SFU (Simon Fraser U)
- BC | VIU (Vancouver Island U)
- BC | TWU (Trinity Western U)
- ON | UofT (U of Toronto)
- ON | UWO (U of Western Ontario)
- ON | UWaterloo (U of Waterloo)
- ON | UofG (U of Guelph)
- ON | OTU (Ontario Tech U)
- QC | McGill (McGill U)
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
🗣️ Politics
- General:
- Federal Parties (alphabetical):
- By Province (alphabetical):
🍁 Social / Culture
- Ask a Canadian
- Bières Québec
- Canada Francais
- Canadian Gaming
- EhVideos (Canadian video media)
- First Nations
- First Nations Languages
- Indigenous
- Inuit
- Logiciels libres au Québec
- Maple Music (music)
Rules
- Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Yup no surprise.
There's a lot of progressive voters who go hoodwinked by this man. True wolf in sheeps clothing.
At least there's a possibility for a progressive vote maybe next time.
PP would have likely sold out Canada to Trump as a state at this point.
Carney was never a friend, just the enemy of the enemy.
Stop with that.
Lib voters voted to prevent the absolute worst option, the conservatives.
Until we have ranked choice voting and we're free to vote our conscience without risk of the cons winning on a split non-con vote, that's how it is going to be.
How are people this short sighted? He's a fucking banker. Of course he's going to do this sort of thing.
I think they're surprised because he's a banker with a track record of seeing things in the long term.
Get your teeth fixed now before they take that away too
We can't even fund our basic healthcare after 10 years of the Liberals. How many citizens don't have a doctor, and what is the wait time at the ER?
You need to do some unlearning from the "blame Trudeau" propaganda.
This is an excellent overview of the Canadian structure of Federation: https://www.slideserve.com/maxim/democratic-government-canadian-style-powerpoint-ppt-presentation
Slide 4 will be most instructive:
The Federal gov't supports healthcare through funding, but if you actually care about healthcare, blaming the Liberals is just ignorant.
Health is the domain of the provinces. If you have an issue talk to Danielle Smith. Don't ask me how I know you are in Alberta.
The doctor issue is provincial. So are ER wait times. What do you expect Ottawa to do about that?
Do something undemocratic, so they can complain about something legitimate for once!
How dare the federal government deprive them of that, they have nothing else to live for.