Thank you very much for your testimony. Just to show my colours, I'm a strong champion of the need for a national pharmacare program.
Linda and Janet, thank you very much for echoing and giving us additional testimony as to the need for that.
The focus of my questioning is more on construction, on how we would achieve it, and the optimal ways to make it work. My first question is more for Thomas and Doug.
It would appear from the advice we've been given that expanding the Canada Health Act to include out-of-hospital prescription drugs would be the most direct and easiest way to achieve that, versus establishing a brand new federal-provincial entity that would oversee a national plan. There would be an expansion of the Health Act. Do you have any comment on that and on how best to construct a plan?