Have you done a constitutional analysis of this aspect of federal health spending when it is directly allocated to specific targets? We will be called upon to pass this legislation, and we want to ensure that it is constitutional.
If we say that the federal government is going to spend a certain amount—of course, I don't have the figure—on home health care, it has to be constitutional, meaning that the federal government has the right to do that. As parliamentarians, we have the right to say that it will spend that amount on that part of your health care system.
Can we be reassured in this regard? The provinces raise this issue, of course. As you know, there was some reluctance in the health negotiations. In fact, the federal government wanted to decide where the money would be spent, which could be seen as an encroachment on the powers of the provinces to decide where they were going to spend their money on health care. Can you reassure the committee in that regard?