2026-04-29 from conservative.ca

Ottawa, ON – Dan Mazier, Conservative Shadow Minister for Health, issued the following statement calling on the Auditor General (AG) to investigate the Liberal government’s failed $300+ million PrescribeIT program:

“In 2016, the Liberals announced $40 million in funding to develop a national e-prescribing service – PrescribeIT – that promised to replace paper prescriptions and fax machines. Ten years later, the cost to taxpayers had exploded to over $300 million, while less than five percent of prescriptions are sent through this program. 

“Earlier this year, Canada Health Infoway quietly voted to terminate the program. Despite this, Mark Carney’s Health Minister has shown no concern for the cost of the failure, proclaiming during Question Period that ‘the money has been spent!’

“PrescribeIT is a $300 million Liberal scandal hiding in plain sight. Canada Health Infoway was picked to design the program, which then paid TELUS Health to develop it, but TELUS may have outsourced the work even further, while failing to achieve results. 

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