Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank our intrepid witnesses who have been coming to meet with us week after week.
Mr. Butler-Jones, in a press conference recently, you mentioned that the provinces are presently tallying up the costs of the H1N1 pandemic. The government has a pandemic plan and has set aside about $400 million for situations like this.
Does the federal government intend to provide provincial governments with the money set aside for pandemics, since it is the provinces that pay the hospitalization costs for this disease?