Based on the paper published earlier this year—and I would have to look at the precise figures—we estimated the incremental cost to government to develop a national plan to essentially provide all of these drugs was about $1 billion more than we're currently paying through public drug plans at present.
The total amount that was spent on Dr. Persaud's essential medicines list was, I believe, in the neighbourhood of about $6 billion or $7 billion in total, but most of that was already currently paid for by public plans or offset by other savings we can get through the plan.
We found in that analysis that the private sector would save about $4 billion in exchange for this $1 billion in increased public spending, for a net savings to the economy of about $3 billion. It's real money.