Posted on 06/29/2005 6:49:48 PM PDT by SmithL
TORONTO -- Canada intends to ban the bulk of export prescriptions to the United States and other countries to try to control Internet pharmacies, the health minister said Tuesday.
Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said he must ensure Canadians continue to have access to an adequate supply of safe and affordable prescription drugs and would launch initiatives, including legislative and regulatory changes, to protect the supply and safety of Canada's drugs.
Sales of the drugs have become popular with Americans seeking cheaper medicine.
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Just tell the Canucks that we'll impose an export R&D tax on all drugs being exported to countries that don't let the drug companies sell the drugs at a market rate.
Ujjal is a petty little Leninist.
A perversion of The Global Economy: it's all right to buy as many toasters as you want from red China, but it's not all right to buy medicine from Canada.
Denying people medicine...how unethical
No problem! Now Pfizer has the right to condemn and seize Canada.
Isn't that just special.....
The international drug cartels have purchased enough influence so that they are now able to lead both our neighbor to the south and our neighbor to the north around like a pig with a ring in its snout.
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