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Spending program

Access, Affordability, and Appropriate Use of Drugs and Medical Devices

Department of Health · Health

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2022–23

$1.0B

1.6% of Health spending in 2024–25.

Down $423M from $1.5B in 2021–22.

$36.07per tax filer$26.80per person

Per tax filer uses 28,934,120 tax filers (2022); per person uses a population of 38,945,628 (2022). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Access, Affordability, and Appropriate Use of Drugs and Medical Devices, by fiscal year

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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