This is about the insidious and dangerous  -- ie oxycontin -- infiltration of big pharma into the decision making process about what drugs are prescribed for us.
"McMaster officials had promised Health Canada that they would avoid a repeat of what happened in 2010, when one-third of the panel members working on an earlier version of the prescribing standards had ties to drug companies."
This demonstrates that it is extremely difficult to stop special interest groups with a lot of money. Government is only sticking a finger in the big pharma dike of influence. Even after the fiasco that occurred in 2010, big money still found a way to get their voice heard.