Mr. Speaker, as I indicated already, I will be tabling a document later today that speaks to what we have heard. Mr. Speaker, there are people who are writing to us and telling us that, and even the Members here have said that we do need to find a way to bring in the people who are excluded. We are having disagreements about how we do that. I appreciate that. There are people who say, go universal, make this part of core service. We have a challenge to that as a government.
If I had all the money in the world, I would like to make everybody happy and pay for all the medication, equipment and no income testing, no nothing, just take care of our people to the fullest extent possible. We do not have that luxury. Yes, taxation option, we have consulted with their departments about raising taxes to pay for this, but the challenge we have is no other governments in the country would raise taxes to pay for something that is not a core service. I know some people would like us to make this a core service, but that is
a value question on the government. That is something that I would differ.
Mr. Speaker, I’m not in any way suggesting that people are telling me to do this, do this, do this, that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is I am listening. I do understand what people are saying, and I understand how difficult this is. We need to keep on trying to work this out. Thank you.