Canada May Call An Emergency Session Of Parliament To Stop Trump's Latest Harebrained Scheme

[babylonsister]

He's such an embarrassment besides all his other horrible traits

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/01/trump-canadian-drugs.html

Posted on Thu, Aug 1st, 2019 by Jason Easley
Canada May Call An Emergency Session Of Parliament To Stop Trump’s Latest Harebrained Scheme


Trump announced a plan to raid Canada’s drug supply without talking to Canada as advocates have called for an emergency session of Parliament.

The Globe and Mail reported:

The plan amounts to nothing short of a “clear and present danger” to the health and well-being of Canadians who need prescription medications, said John Adams, the volunteer chairman of the Best Medicines Coalition, a non-profit organization representing 28 national patient organizations. “This is really serious,” said Adams, who warned that the existing supply of drugs in Canada is not always sufficient to meet the current needs of Canadians, let alone a sudden surge in demand from south of the border.

The federal government may not be suitably equipped to protect the drug supply, he added, suggesting Parliament ought to be recalled before the October election in order to establish a mechanism to ensure Canadians have ample access to the medications they need. “We may not have all the necessary tools in place,” Adams said. “If not, let’s be honest about that and let’s call Parliament back to a special session before the election to create the legal tools to protect the supply of patented medicines for Canadians and their health needs.”

As has become the norm in the US, the Trump administration has proposed a half-baked plan without talking to allies or thinking it through. Trump wants to do something fast on prescription drug costs because he wants to run on it in 2020.

Instead of coming up with a plan to have the US government negotiate prescription drug prices, because, in the Republican speak that’s socialism, Trump is going to steal Canada’s drug supply, and cause a shortage of prescription medications north of the border.

Big Pharma spends a lot of money donating to Republicans and some Democrats, so Republicans will never support the obvious solution to lowering prescription drug costs. Trump has no plan, so he is going to take the drugs from Canada and claim victory.

If Trump tries to implement this scheme, expect a swift legal Canadian response limiting exports of prescription drugs to the US, as Trump’s con won’t be tolerated.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I could not find how exactly he will raid Canada's supply...

[htuttle]

3. I suppose they could set up a Canadian shell company

...That bought huge lots wholesale at the Canadian price and shipped them to the US?

I'm sure that Trump already has a (contributing) company in mind to handle that. He gets his vig from the campaign contribution.

[global1]

2. Canada Is Going To Build A Wall.....

to keep Americans from looting Canada's supply of prescription drugs.

[gratuitous]

4. The administration is looking to allow citizens to go to Canada for prescription drugs

As it is, there are a lot of U.S. citizens who go to Canada in quest of prescription drugs that are available far more cheaply there. There are even organized bus tours that ferry folks to the Great White North for the purpose. Doing that is prohibited by federal law, though. Under the rubric of drug safety (you don't know where that Viagra's been!), citizens aren't supposed to go to other countries to take advantage of a health care industry not quite so in thrall to Big Pharma.

Instead of enacting laws against Big Pharma and cutting their remarkably large profit margins, the Trump administration is mulling an executive order overruling the laws on the books, and using Canada as the cut-rate suppliers of America's prescription drug needs. Of course, the administration didn't consult with our mortal enemies, the Canadians, about this because fuck 'em. Canada is justifiably concerned that they will run short of prescription drugs if millions of U.S. citizens come storming across the border to fill their prescriptions.

Trump: Spreading good will across the globe, like a really virulent case of herpes.

[scarletwoman]

5. Beautifully said!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump

is trying to coerce Canada into building a wall. I doubt Canada will permit raids on their supplies of medications.

[SCVDem]

7. By threatening the health and well being of Canadians

tRump is turning to terrorism.

Does he really want Canada to declare war on America?

NATO would have to side with them against us.

We will suffer the same economic fate as the countries this orange ass is inflicting on the world.

America is not at all popular under this dipshit.

[moondust]

8. So Canada will be forced to limit exports

which will force Americans to stop trekking to Canada to buy their insulin for 10 or 20 times less? Is that the Big Pharma plan?

[canetoad]

9. Canada should just

Close the border.