Here is the bad news. Pierre Poilievre has pledged that if his party is elected, he’ll destroy the plan. “I will reject the radical plan for a ‘single-payer’ drug plan,” he said in the House of Commons.

So if you love your money more than you love your children, Poilievre is the man for you.

Here is some good news. Manitoba has the distinction of being the first province to jump aboard the federal government’s national pharmacare program, which will see diabetes medication and birth control covered by federal funding.