Thank you for bringing that up and for your continued advocacy around palliative care.
I think you'll hear me talk about it repeatedly because I feel extremely strongly about it. As a society, apart from the fact that I think this is ground-breaking legislation that we should be proud of as Canadians, we've taken this mature step in this matter. If the other phenomenal result of this conversation can be that for the first time we are determined as a country to say that the status quo is completely unacceptable, that only 15% to 30% of Canadians have access to high-quality palliative care, we are determined to make that right. We are in negotiation with the provinces and territories.
I fundamentally believe that every Canadian should have access to high-quality palliative care at the end of life, recognizing maybe 5% or 6% of Canadians don't want it. You'll hear Senator Carstairs talk about the 94%. She's obviously done some amazing work on this. We will be working with her and others. This will very much be a part of the health accord. You know that we've made a commitment to that. I would ask you to continue to ask for it. Please ask me every single day in the House of Commons if you can, so we can raise the bar on palliative care. It makes sense. It's what people need and what they want. It's financially far better. People actually live longer if they have good palliative care than if it's not offered to them. It's absolutely the right thing to do. I can offer you $3 billion now as part of my firm commitment and part of our health accord, which will include home care and palliative care. Stay tuned for more details on that.