Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the panel members for coming here and shedding more light on this big issue that the committee is studying.
My first question is for Professor Bourassa Forcier.
The implementation of medicare in Canada required government to take the patchwork of insurers and create a single-payer system. There have been suggestions by the previous witnesses that a similar process must be used to implement a national single-payer pharmacare strategy.
Respecting the constitutional divisions of power between the federal and provincial governments, what is the federal government's scope of action to implement national pharmacare, which could include a single-payer model and a single formulary?