I'll run some simple math on this. It's going to depend on how broad a list of medications you cover, but the typical cost for someone on the ODB program here in Ontario is roughly $1,900 a year. If you took that $1.5 billion, and it was an annual thing, you could probably cover most of that gap and provide access to the ODB.
This is just an illustration of the choices we can make to target federal funds where they will make the most impact. Using money to simply replicate what's already in place for 27 million people is, in our view, not the best use of scarce federal resources. In fact, switching people off a private plan and onto a public one risks their actually having weaker coverage than they have today.
We are completely aligned with the vision the minister outlined this morning. I'm not aware of anybody who's suggesting the system can't be improved. I don't think anyone has argued that today. However, we should be targeting our efforts where the need is, not risking disrupting what's working for the large majority of Canadians. As you said, that's 90% of Canadians today.