Bill Dempster of 3Sixty Public Affairs will moderate a peerless political expert panel that will cover the bases across Canada’s three main national political parties: Kathleen Monk, Principal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group: communications and campaign strategist and past Director of Communications for the NDP Geoff Turner, Senior Consultant, Bluesky Strategy Group: longtime Liberal strategist and advisor at the provincial (Ontario) and federal levels Roberta Kramchynsky, Manager, StrategyCorp: health policy-focused public affairs strategist and former staffer to CPC MPs That panel will be followed by experts within CORD’s own community to take last week’s discussion further, and drill down on specific approaches to key issues for rare diseases policy, including Health Canada’s “What We Heard” Report on Building a National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases, the latest PMPRB proposals on drug price controls and developments at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health in their quest to build a national formulary.