In Canada, healthcare is a provincial responsibility and so it might be different across the country. With medications especially, we have a patchwork of overlapping rules and support systems. The new national pharmacare system was supposed to be the first step towards fixing that mess, but unfortunately with the new government:

thetyee.ca/…/Canada-National-Pharmacare-What-Happ…

Also no problem and welcome to Canada! :)

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