Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
As my colleague said earlier, these presentations were really interesting and varied.
I would like to ask all witnesses some questions, but since I have only five minutes, I will focus on health care. So I will address my questions to Mr. Adams and Ms. Bard.
I am happy you talked about health care for seniors because demographic pressures will make that issue increasingly important. Those demographic pressures have made the government unilaterally decide to increase the eligibility age for Old Age Security from 65 to 67. Owing to those demographic pressures, the government also unilaterally decided to reduce by half the growth of transfers to provinces—from 6% to 3% per year. For the provinces, that will result in a loss or revenue of $38 billion over the next 10 years.
What do you suggest should be done to deal with the crisis in health care that will arise from that transfer reduction and will impose a heavy burden on the administration?