Thank you very much to both of you for coming here. It's been quite interesting.
I'm going to ask a similar question in two different forms.
Mr. Geist, I've read some of your writings. You talk about a policy called “opt-in consent”, which I found very intriguing.
You brought up the Ministry of Health, so I want to give a bit of background. As pharmacists, one thing we've found is that whenever any patient wanted to sign up for the government drug plan, they first of all had to opt in to give consent and also to provide specific information. To verify their income, they had to give specific consent so the health ministry could talk to CRA to make sure the income was verified, in order for the ministry to determine and discern what deductible group they were going to be in.
Here's my question for you. When we talk about government agencies and government departments, sometimes they may have to talk to people but opt-in consent is not given. You've said that you feel that should be the default approach. How do we strike that balance to make sure the government is still effective and still running efficiently? Could you maybe highlight how we can strike that balance?