Health committee  If you look at the table that we provide in our costing note, you see in the very first line that the cost will amount to approximately $5.7 billion, which would give you an estimation for how much that would cost for these same drugs if the program covered everyone in Canada. Then you can see the cost recovery due to public plans or the private drug coverage.

Health committee  It just simply comes down to the fact that the data we used for this analysis contains only provincial data. Had we had territorial data, of course we would have liked to include that in our analysis.

Health committee  The first thing that comes to mind is having clear terms and requirements for the program, such as a specific list of drugs. We know now that it's still to be negotiated. Once we know for sure which drugs are included, it will help us have a better understanding of how to cost such a program and provide a better estimate.