Thank you so much, Mr. Davies, for your question.
As I've indicated, we recognize that Canadians pay way too much for drugs, and that's why we are moving forward with the implementation of the advisory council on the implementation of pharmacare. We recognize that Dr. Eric Hoskins is very well positioned to chair this committee, and we have instructed him that we want to make sure he presents us with options regarding a national pharmacare program and what that could look like.
We have no preconceived ideas as to what that is going to be—I have no preconceived idea, as well—but we certainly want him and the council to come forward with options, including on the implementation of the way forward, because we certainly want to make sure that we get this right, given that we have 13 provinces and territories as members of a federation. With respect to our council members, and also our chair being the former health minister of one of our major provinces, they certainly recognize the challenges that we could meet going forward.
We certainly want to position the council to provide us with the information we need on the implementation plan, and we don't want to wait. We want to make sure that the committee gets out there.
On the board members, as I have indicated, I am hoping to be able to make the announcements in the very, very near future. Dr. Hoskins himself has already been in the process of meeting with provincial and territorial health ministers.