Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to focus my questions to the citizens' panel, the members who are here. I read through this and found it quite interesting. I read the names of the people who are on the panel and their backgrounds and such, and of course your recommendations to have a universal, mandatory, public drug insurance system that provides the necessary coverage to all Canadians.
It sounds wonderful, doesn't it, to have a system here in a Canada where all the drugs are paid for and everybody has access to the necessary medicines that they require? But there is a price to that. Of course, you know that. You mentioned some equitable revenue tools in your paper here. Mr. Oliver brought that up, about the income tax, corporate taxes, and such.
In your panel discussions, when you brought in some experts, did you talk about the costs involved and what the costs may be to implement your recommendations? Are there any specific numbers? I would just like to know more about the actual cost of implementing what you're recommending.