Dr. Marchildon, as Mr. Romanow said, Canada is the only country in the world that has a universal medicare system that does not include a universal pharmacare system of some type.
We're also heard from witnesses that we should be looking at a made-in-Canada solution, but certain concepts have emerged that, it has been suggested, would allow us both to save money and to afford universal coverage. Those include having a single formulary, perhaps a national one; having an efficient, evidence-based drug approval process to get on that formulary; having a streamlined, perhaps single, administration, perhaps a public one; bulk buying; perhaps giving certain manufacturers exclusive access to the Canadian market, as New Zealand does, for a period of time, which allows lowering of costs, and we've heard about the cost savings related to non-adherence.
You have proposed one such uniquely Canadian version, and that is to have a federally administered system. I'm just wondering if I could give you a minute or so to comment on that and to make the case for it.