Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for being here.
Many of us around this table came to the conclusion quite a while ago that the need to provide some form of universal pharmacare coverage for Canadians is absolutely imperative. We know that Canadians pay about the second-highest drug prices in the world. We know, depending on who you talk to, that between 10% and 20% of Canadians have no pharmaceutical coverage whatsoever, meaning there are millions of Canadians walking the streets today who have zero coverage to get the medicine they need when they get sick. We're really trying to figure out how best to deliver that.
If I understand you correctly, it seems that there are three broad routes. One is by agreement of the provinces and federal government. Nothing would preclude them, I understand, from coming to an arrangement. You call it a contractual model. Number two, there could be an expansion of the Canada Health Act. Number three, the federal government could go it alone on a stand-alone national program under one of the potential constitutional heads of power. Do I have that correct about the three basic routes?