I was there during the negotiations in 2004. I obviously didn't take part in them, but I was there in another capacity.
The objective of negotiations such as those of 2004 was to enable the provinces and territories—although we are talking about the provinces in this case—to meet to determine health care spending projections and to try to agree with the federal government on necessary funding, eventually with certain structural adjustments on their part to demands that would be made of their health budget.
I am simply trying to see how the Canada Health Transfer previously correlated with spending projections and whether we are currently straying from that objective or process.