That's a very good question.
Mr. Chair, IFH provides the basic suite of health services that would be available to Canadian residents through their provincial health care plans. It also provides certain supplementary benefits that Canadians typically have to pay for through their own private supplementary benefit packages for such things as dental or opthamological care or drugs and so on.
I've heard concern expressed by Canadians on the same grounds: many Canadians, particularly seniors, have a hard time understanding why asylum claimants, particularly those who are illegal migrants who don't really need Canada's protection but are bogus refugee claimants, should be receiving better health care benefits than they do. That's something we're looking at.
I think there's a strong equity argument that we should not be providing to such migrants more generous benefits than Canadians can receive through their publicly funded health care insurance system.