Thank you to all the witnesses for coming today.
I'd like to start with Dr. Klasa of Canadian Doctors for Medicare.
First of all, I'd like to thank your organization for its passionate support of publicly funded health care in Canada.
You had three points, I think, in your very short presentation. The first was the desire that we uphold the Canada Health Act. The second was that we renew the health accord that has expired. Third, you talked about a national pharmacare program. I'd like to talk about each of them.
You mentioned in your remarks what you called “legislative loopholes” that violate the spirit of the act. Then you talked about new fears of privatization. I can't help thinking that you may be referring to the federal government's apparently lacklustre support of the medicare program in the Cambie Street clinic case, Dr. Day's clinic in Vancouver. Is that what you had in mind? Is the federal government there aggressively supporting our medicare system?