Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if he were to be elected prime minister he would launch a $44-billion lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies to account for what he calls their role in the opioid epidemic.
He said Tuesday that a Poilievre government would join, as a plaintiff, an existing class-action lawsuit filed by British Columbia, seeking an additional $4 billion in damages to the federal health-care system, and launch “a separate federal lawsuit to go after non-health costs, like border security, prisons, Indigenous programming, etc.”
It named Purdue Canada—part of the American pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, best known for making the drug OxyContin—as one of more than 40 manufacturers and distributors in its class-action lawsuit. “These powerful multinationals knew exactly what they were doing, but they kept doing it anyway to profit themselves and their wealthy executives,” he also said.
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