Council of Canadians supporters across the country are showing their support for public pharmacare and building the movement by putting up window signs in their homes and asking their neighbors to do the same, handing out flyers and collecting petitions outside pharmacies and at other locations in their communities, and meeting with their MPs.
Below are printable campaign materials and other resources that can be useful to those of you doing this work.
Campaign materials
Organizing in your community
Meet with your MP about pharmacare
The federal government has promised to implement a national pharmacare program by the end of 2023. MPs need to hear from their constituents to ensure they follow through with their promise.
Canvassing How-To: A Guide to Building Power for Pharmacare
Canvassing is the work of reaching out and speaking one-on-one with people about an issue you care about and motivating them to take action. We can build the people power needed to win pharmacare, one conversation at a time, by speaking with our neighbours about the urgent need for pharmacare and the opportunity before us, and inviting them to join the fight.
Organize a Town Hall using this toolkit
If you’re interested in hosting a Pharmacare town hall, or would like to be connected with people who are hosting a town hall near you, please let us know here.
Recent Actions
Recent Articles
Older articles and reports:
- We Need Pharmacare Now, pandemic testimonials, illustrated (September 2020)
- Pharmacare brochure, with mail-in sign on (April 2017)
- A Better Prescription report (October 2016)
Resources that were prepared for the launch of the Better Prescription report:
- Executive Summary – A Prescription for Better Medicine: How universal pharmacare would give Canada an economic advantage
- Brochure: Pharmacare is a prescription for better medicine
- Pharmacare Facts and Figures
- Tips on lobbying your Member of Parliament
- Sample letters to the editor on pharmacare
- Printable Petition: Show Your Support For Pharmacare!
Outside resources:
- The Big Money Club: Revealing the Players and Their Campaign to Stop Pharmacare (March 2019)
- A Prescription for Savings (CCPA-C4TF report, December 2018)
- Cost Savings for National Pharmacare (CCPA Briefing Note, September 2017)
- The Hoskins Report (June 2019)
- The Economic Case for Pharmacare (February 2019)
- How Big Pharma Took Over Patient Groups to Keep Drug Prices High (Nov 2022)
Videos:
- Recording of Pharmacare Pharmacare Now! A Town Hall hosted by Avi Lewis in London, Ontario on May 17, 2023.
- Why doesn’t Canada’s health care system include pharmacare? (3 min, CBC, 2017)
- Why Canada has such high drug prices (13 min, CBC, 2019)
- Expensive prescription drugs in Canada : Canada’s Health Care Problem (42 min, Fifth Estate CBC, 2017)
- Pharmacare 2020 videos and 2013 conference
- Marshalling the evidence for pharmacare reform in Canada, Steve Morgan video from Pharmacare 2020
- Pharmacare: Canada’s biggest unresolved health policy problem, Steve Morgan video from Pharmacare 2020
