Finally, Dr. Greg Marchildon, who is at the University of Toronto, has commented on the two options. The first is the one I just mentioned, which is the traditional program financed by the federal government under a few national criteria and administered and financed for the remainder by the provinces and territorial governments.
The second option, he says:
is a national pharmacare program financed and administered entirely by the federal government. While jurisdiction in most areas of health care is principally provincial, pharmaceuticals are one of the only subjects in which the federal government has a secure constitutional foothold. Coverage would be provided to all Canadians by the federal government and would replace private and public coverage plans currently in place with a single universal plan.
He says the way to do that is to give provinces the right to opt out. Therefore, if they opted out, Bob's your uncle. Is that also a second possibility for the federal government or is that...?