Mr. Chair, I am saying no such thing. I have said very clearly that we accept the recommendations of the Auditor General. We will implement them. I am simply trying to deal with some of the complexities and difficulties. The Department of Health has tried to deal with the drug abuse situation which is not the question that the hon. member is raising and I recognize that.
There is the question of privacy and consent. The aboriginal leadership just issued a press release today to highlight that issue of consent.
The issue of bulk purchasing and the federal government being able to purchase in bulk some of those drugs directly is just not feasible at this time. We may be able to do that, but we have over 1,000 pharmacies prescribing those drugs to individuals. We have medical practitioners giving them the prescriptions. If we were a province and actually owned the pharmacies, and had the doctors under our control, we would be able to do that.
I want Health Canada to sit with the Auditor General and perhaps she can advise us as to how she thinks we can do that.