Complex sentence: As Consumer and Corporate Affairs minister, Basford sheperded the passage of legislation that dramatically reduced pharmaceutical prices giving Canada the lowest drug prices in the industrialised world into the late 1980s when the legislation was repealed by the Mulroney government.
Split into simpler sentences: As Consumer and Corporate Affairs minister, Basford shepherded the passage of legislation that dramatically reduced pharmaceutical prices. This gave Canada the lowest drug prices in the industrialized world into the late 1980s when the legislation was repealed by the Mulroney government.