If Parliament approves the bill, as you said, MP Sidhu, by December 1 we are hoping to make Canadians access this benefit. Approximately 500,000 children below the age of 12 would be eligible for that benefit. It would save obviously a lot of money in a context in which the cost of living is very severe for families with children, especially young children.
In addition to that, as we noted, it will help those children not only avoid the severe mental health and physical health costs of not having access to dental care, but it then would reduce the risk of future diabetes, cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal disease, including the risk of generalized infection, the cost of which, when people go to a hospital, can range between $12,000 and $25,000 per emergency visit.