Most drug companies are not domiciled in Canada and cannot be nationalized.  To create our own system of research and development would deprive us of many new drugs.

We should ensure  funds are available for Canadian universities and hospitals for basic research that may lead to new discoveries and ensure that these discoveries are not given free or at low cost for drug companies to conduct trials.

Research that leads to a patented drug should require that a  royalty be paid to those who conducted the research to fund ongoing research.  The unintended consequence may be that drug companies will avoid using basic Canadian research.

Drug trials  should be sequestered; those standing to profit should not choose  those who conduct them and all trials both positive and negative should be published.  

It is encouraging that one provincial government has chosen to take on the generics.