Thank you.
Could you clear some of this up? I have read Bill C-31. Of course, to get the money, a person has to attest that they will use the money for dental services and has to keep the receipts for the service. When we send Canadians the child benefit payment every month, we have no guarantee they're going to spend it on their children either, but we still send the money to families.
Mr. Perron just made a wonderful argument for why the Canadian health care transfer has to have conditions attached to it—so we can make sure that provinces spend it on the things that it's being transferred for, much like he wants to make sure that the money transferred to families ends up being paid for dental care, I would suppose.
I want to finish the question I asked before. The CDA's written submission to this committee noted that in 2017, only 39% of Canadians had access to community water fluoridation, whereas 73% of Americans had access to it in 2018.
How important is fluoridation to oral health, and what steps should the federal government take to try to encourage fluoridation of our water?