Thank you for the question.
Who is it fine for? That is what we have to talk about. Is it fine for Canadians?
Clearly, we hear that people in Quebec are not happy with the system they have. Talk to one of the leading health economists, Steve Morgan from the University of British Columbia. He ran the numbers. He says that Quebeckers are paying for drug medication in one of the highest-cost jurisdictions in the world. In fact, per capita, they're only topped by the United States. They pay more than Switzerland. In fact, if that system in Quebec were translated to other provinces, costs would actually increase because of the problems in the system.
I take the word of experts and health economists who looked at the Quebec model very closely. Listen to what people are saying. Is that the system we want to have for the rest of the country, or do we want to go with the kind of single-payer national universal system envisioned in Bill C-64?