Thank you for the question.
Certainly pharmacare and home care are pieces of the puzzle. What we're recommending in terms of the demographic top-up to the Canada health transfer would be broader than that. If you look at health care spending, say, for Canadians under the age of 64, you see it's about $2,700 per year. If you're 65 or older, it's about four times that. When you look at that as a whole with an aging population, you see it needs to be a multi-pronged or multi-faceted approach to look at the needs of our aging population.
Home care is part of it. Pharmacare will be part of it, but also consider that the top-up would help to alleviate some of the greater issues we're seeing in the health care system today, like emergency room wait times or elective surgeries getting cancelled because there are no beds in the hospital. Yes, it is addressing the seniors' population, but there are going to be downstream effects throughout the whole health care system.