Wanting, however, to show they weren’t toadies to Big Pharma, the Chretien Liberals undid those protections in the last 1990s, with predictable results.
In 1996 there was $1.3 billion in drug company research done in Canada. By 2019, that had fallen to $870 million. Adjusting for inflation, current spending is less than half of what it was.
That’s why we can no longer manufacture vaccines.
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