iPolitics AM: New Democrats call on government to back pharmacare plan up for ‘historic’ House vote – iPolitics
Feb 24, 2021
After spending the first half of the week focused on his now-wrapped virtual meet-up with U.S. President Joe Biden — which, as the Star reports, ended with the pair “touting bonds of friendship and a renewed commitment to work together” — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be back in his front-bench seat in the House of Commons this afternoon, where he can expect to be cross-examined by his cross-aisle adversaries over exactly what, if anything, was actually accomplished during the two-hour video chat with the new occupant of the White House.
Although the closed-door session “produced the expected ‘road map’ for cooperation between Canada and the U.S. on a range of shared goals,” the Star notes, “absent from the list of commitments was any reference to COVID vaccines and Biden’s ‘Buy American’ proposals, priorities highlighted in advance of Tuesday’s meeting by opposition politicians and Canadian stakeholders.”
