Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for some very powerful and very trenchant testimony.
Ms. Silas and Mr. Naidoo, I want to start with you. In your view, should we develop a national pharmacare program? Do you believe it should be created as a separate stand-alone program managed collaboratively by the federal, provincial, and territorial governments, or, alternatively, should existing provincial and territorial public health insurance plans instead be expanded to cover out-of-hospital prescription drugs as a requirement under the Canada Health Act?