News Summary

• Ontario was right to oppose the College's opposition to them.
• Ontario passed a law requiring pharmacies to be majority-owned by pharmacists in 1954.
• The OCP imposed regulations on pharmacies to ensure that local customers’ needs would always be pharmacists’ first priority.
• The same concern led the OCP to be suspicious of franchised and banner stores because, while owned independently, they raised concerns about the independence of local-pharmacy manager/owners in regard to patient care.