Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank the witnesses for coming here this morning.
I would like to direct my question to HealthPRO. Once a drug product is approved by Health Canada, manufacturers and purchasers are free to enter into a commercial contract for supply, including establishing the terms of these contracts. You are uniquely situated in a drug supply chain to communicate with both the drug makers and the customers, such as provinces and territories, in drug supply.
Can you explain why it is that drug purchasers and distributors have come to rely on a single source of suppliers of medically necessary drugs?