Added by Stanley Tam
to "Ontario’s Community Pharmacies"

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"Here's the problem with SDM's strategy - throughout the last few months, they have defended their image as being professional and upholding the high standard of the profession. They have many great pharmacists, including many of my former classmates, who wholeheartedly believed in this cause and stood up for their profession. Now suddenly they too are seeing the true nature of the corporate colours. The pharmacists at SDM know that in the end this will affect their salaries, their work environment and the nature of the profession itself. Many realize that they are being used as tools by faceless corporate big shots. Their morale is not high. After talking about the value of pharmacists, big font capital FREE, FREE, FREE, does a lot to tarnish that value. The public may be stupid to an extent, but the pharmacists, and technicians, who work for SDM (and Loblaws,etc) are not.

A future monopoly will mean higher prices for customers, poor working environments and lower wages for pharmacy staff, and a spiral downwards for health care in Ontario. So everyone who supported the Liberal cuts was supporting BIG pharmacy, BIG pharma, BIG government, BIG CEOs, and BIG monopoly. Is this what you wanted?"