Thank you.
Mr. Giroux, earlier in our discussion you mentioned, and I believe I'm right on this, that the transfers for provinces, whether they be equalization, health or social, are essentially without strings attached. The province gets this money and they can allocate it as they wish.
Recently, there's been some back-and-forth in the media over the health transfer. I noted that recently the health minister, Minister Duclos, was cited as saying in an article that Ottawa was ready to commit to additional health care dollars for the provinces and territories, but that this new money would come with conditions, which would include—so it's not an exclusive list—expanding the use of common key health indicators in building a world-class health data system for the country.
That statement seems inconsistent with your understanding of how this works. I'm wondering if you could comment on that. Does the federal government have the right to impose conditions on the provinces as to how they use these monies?