Access to contraception is a human right, enabling individuals to freely decide if or when to become

1 In 2021, the Liberals and the New Democratic Party made a pledge to continue progress toward a universal national pharmacare program over the course of their “supply and confidence” agreement.2 Action Canada campaigned for the introduction of the pharmacare program and believes it has the potential to change the lives of people across Canada, particularly for marginalized people who are falling. [...] 5 A separate study in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada estimated that the current annual cost of contraception across Canada would be $261 million, but the savings, for direct medical costs of unintended pregnancy alone, would be approximately $320 million.6 This cost estimate does not consider the increased bargaining and purchase power the federal government would have when negot. [...] This right includes obligations on Canada to ensure that cost does not prevent people from accessing …when people are given the possibility of sexual and reproductive health selecting the options that work best for them, information, services, and supplies, regardless of costs, that they are more likely including contraceptive methods of their to use contraception, and more likely to select choice. [...] 20 The shadow cast by the practice of forced sterilization and the experiences of coercive contraceptive care fuels mistrust in the healthcare system at large, creating more barriers to accessing appropriate contraceptive care and health care generally. [...] The current government has promised to establish the Canadian Drug Agency and to create a national formulary as recommended by the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare in 2019.