Good morning, Minister.
I have a couple of questions to ask of you and the people who are with you.
The first one is with respect to the cost of health care in this country. I understand you were a provincial minister, and part of this question may have to do with the delivery of health care, but there is such a thing as national policy and the national government's obligation to deal with this. The cost of health care has skyrocketed right across this country, so much so that we're spending more on health care than anything else, and particularly in the jurisdiction in which you were formerly the Minister of Health. But people demand health care and must have health care. There are all kinds of initiatives that the medical profession is taking.
My question has to do with other jurisdictions, as to whether your government is looking at other governments, other countries, other processes, and whether it's reviewing other processes, other systems, to see not only whether the system that those countries have is as good as ours but whether they are doing it more efficiently, so that perhaps with a meeting with provincial ministers some sort of national policy could be put forward.