I want you to know that I'm supportive of your motion, and I do appreciate the passion that you have for this issue. I have family members with it, and I know that our first nations community is really challenged by diabetes, so I think this is a really excellent thing to do.
My only concern is to get the most efficient study done. If we ask the parliamentary budget officer to provide a cost analysis, perhaps if we could get that in advance it might be a better thing.
We know with the pharmacare program that we've asked him for his analysis, which is going to be important for us in how we move forward with pharmacare. But that's going to be taking time, and if we had that in advance, I think it would have been a more efficiently run study.
So I'm just asking if, in relation to the study, the PBO will give a cost analysis “in advance” on the current fiscal impact and future projected costs to the Canadian health care system, just so that we know upfront what we're looking at. I would really just want to add those two words so we have that information before we start the study.