Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
If you recall, in the last accord negotiated when Prime Minister Martin was in power, the Health Council of Canada was created. It was subsequently wound down by the following government, but the Health Council of Canada was intended to be an opportunity for the provinces to come together, when it came to measurement of the performance of the systems. It's something to think about. I know it no longer exists, but is there an opportunity, either through the federal government's spending power, the $5 billion, or otherwise, for that? Even the Council of the Federation was doing a lot of interprovincial collaborative work because of the vacuum that has been created historically, and particularly over the last decade vis-à-vis the federal role.
So there are opportunities to create mechanisms, whether they are incented federally or otherwise, that focus not only on expenditure metrics, but more importantly, also on performance metrics around quality and accessibility.