Thank you very much. I'm glad you're both here to raise these issues with us.
I wanted to touch on one more issue if I have time. That is the role of the federal government, generally, on health care.
Marlene, you touched on it with respect to both accountability and the national pharmaceutical strategy. When I tried to suggest to the minister the other day that he really ought to follow through on a long-awaited promise for national home care, he basically said to me that I was raising issues that were provincial and I should go back to provincial politics.
Are we past the point of ever being able to hope for expanding medicare into areas of pharmaceuticals and home care and prevention, so that we can actually do the next step in medicare that we all dreamed of and still do?