I'm not going to continue reading from the court decision, but I want to ask questions about this provincial inability versus provincial inaction. Both of you have referenced these two different things, and it sounds like our provincial cousins do try to manage the cost. They just do a bad job of it. I'm seeing some heads shaking.
There are other politicians doing something. They're trying to manage these costs. They're getting into agreements with companies. They're just not doing it very well, but they are acting in concert, so it's not that there's an inability; there's just slow action or poor action.
If government at the provincial level is not getting it done, why would government intervention at the federal level fix it? If government is getting it wrong, why would more government fix it? I always start from that point. I'm from Alberta, so I can't help but say that. More government doesn't seem to be the solution.
Professor Attaran, I think you said the price-fixing was by fiat. It just kind of happens. It's very nebulous. There's not a lot of information on how that goes. Wouldn't that then happen to the federal government? Whatever mechanism you use to move it to a federal sphere, jointly or co-operatively, wouldn't the federal government then experience those exact same problems? If you cannot pinpoint exactly where the issue is and you cannot define it, study it, look at it, and really understand it, then why would moving it to the federal sphere fix it?