Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the three witnesses.
We all have issues in our ridings. We get these things every single day. Somebody came to see me last week. His son has Down's syndrome, and his wife has similar issues. He told me that OHIP doesn't cover it. It costs him 400 bucks for a single shot every 10 days.
I'm not a doctor. It's a difficult situation. I'm assuming that subsection 38(1) was brought in to balance, I guess, who can come and who can't come, that sort of thing.
Anybody can ask what the balance point is at which the taxpayers pick up the bill. The $36 million may be a drop in the bucket at the end of the day. This is their money. We give it back to them. Sometimes in Ottawa we act like Santa Claus with taxpayers' money. However, going back to Mr. Sweetman, if we want to bring those people in, we have to up the money. So far it seems that we are holding back all those people. If we bring in 2,000 additional people, what will it cost?
Anybody can answer.