I think Health Canada should be competent enough to know weeks or even months in advance that there is a looming supply shortage of specific drugs and has the mandate to procure whatever is needed to fill the backlog.
This is not about private versus public, funding production, etc. This is about a health emergency, and the public entities we have in place not doing their job.
If there is a worldwide shortage of these drugs, or any drugs that we consider important, then yes the government should be funding production just like they did with COVID vaccines to make sure Canadians who need the drugs are taken care of.
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