Thank you very much.
I'd like to talk for a moment or ask a few questions of Dr. Forbes.
First of all, thank you for the recommendations. One of your comments was on influencing prescribing behaviour. That comment has come up a few times here in committee, and I think the statistic was that 40% of seniors maybe have inappropriate prescriptions.
We heard that Canadians are the highest users of opioids, for example, along with the United States, and that there's a very high percentage of anti-depressants.
I was wondering about the challenge of the role the government would play in that regard, because there is an issue of prescribing, but I guess there's also the issue of de-prescribing. I was wondering what advice you give to your members. Do you have any programs on that? As gatekeepers for medication, how do we as a federal government work with our doctors not to be too overly prescriptive but to allow doctors choices with patients? How do we put in a system in which we won't see over-prescribing and the costs that go with that?