Thank you.
I will add to Ricardo's observations about the job quality tool that when we look at the literature internationally, we recognize that the dimensions of a job that make for well-being for the employee include wages and the benefits associated with the job. With the increase in the precariousness of work, we're seeing fewer and fewer opportunities, particularly for young people, to access benefits that would include a medicare program.
The level of a living wage is an algorithm that links wages and the benefits that are attached to that job. If there were opportunities for the federal government to provide a basic safety net associated with pharmacare, that would give more flexibility to employers to have a range of wage levels that would make it.... In an economy like Toronto's, there is anxiety in the employer community about raising wages too much. If the federal government were providing a pharmacare program, that would balance the benefits package to some extent.