Interesting, thank you. Thank you for the full understanding of that issue.
The Alberta Federation of Labour, you are advocating for a publicly funded drug plan. I just don't see how, in this day and age, we can get to universal pharmacare in Canada, given all the economic challenges we face. We just had another decrease of our growth outlook by the IMF. My conversation with the average Canadian has always been this, that there is only so much money that comes in revenue—and the only way the government gets revenue is through taxes—and there is always extra expenditure. Now, what we are advocating here, on your position, is to increase our expenditure, in my humble opinion quite significantly, without having the revenue model to fund it.
We can have this debate for a very long time, but when government is stimulating economic growth, the best dollar-for-dollar funding formula is through infrastructure funding, which you also support. Can you please just give an economic argument for universal pharmacare?