I can quickly answer that. I'm not entirely sure about going into the Canada Health Act, which is what Roy Romanow recommended for prescription drugs as a long-term goal. There are certain principles of the Canada Health Act that might not be consistent with the way you manage a pharmacare program, such as having no user charges to patients for any of the eligible drugs covered. In fact, as Dr. Gagnon has pointed out, most systems do use some kind of patient cost-sharing as an incentive to get patients to at least use the cost-effective treatments first before moving on.
You might decide to move it into the Canada Health Act, but it would require some tweaking. You could create an analogous Canada pharmacare act, and it would have the same purpose and maybe have more specific language about how this would be run, what kind of national agency would manage the formulary, how they would be subject to some budget constraint. I think there's expert consensus, for instance, that we make sure this program is budgeted so that it's not a white elephant.