Through the chair, we did take the previous government to court over the annual report, which has pages and pages left blank from many provinces. Some provinces, such as Manitoba and Saskatchewan, comply. The Federal Court ruled that we certainly had a point and that it was up to parliamentarians to enforce this, as the givers of the cheques, if you will.
So there's no accountability there.
As I said, there are two provinces not participating in the Health Council of Canada. I don't know how they can be accountable. I hear often that we shouldn't intrude on the provinces. Well, I think the citizens in those provinces expect your cheque to have accountability attached to it.
The ultimate intrusion, on the other hand—PPP Canada Inc.—for any project over $50 million.... You couldn't build an acute care hospital in a large Canadian city for under $150 million. Any project with more than $50 million, this government is saying, you must consider a private hospital, a P3 hospital.
So we intrude in provincial jurisdiction there, but we don't enforce millions of dollars going out in medicare transfers, and we accept many blank pages. CUPE doesn't accept that.