Thank you for that.
I'd like to come back to pharmacare, because, as you know, government members voted down and killed the Canada pharmacare act, which was the first piece of legislation actually brought forward to Parliament that would have put in place public universal pharmacare. The budget basically shows a complete abandoning of public universal pharmacare. The government has just completely ripped up its promise of 2019.
There are 10 million Canadians who have no access to drug plans or medication. I have constituents who are paying a thousand dollars a month for life-saving heart medication, and they are struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
How important is it to put in place public universal pharmacare, and how big is this betrayal by this government in simply having abandoned its 2019 commitment?