Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to all of you for coming.
I think we admire the goal of Healthy Canadians—anything to increase transparency and accountability. We're all interested in improving the health of Canadians. But I do have some concerns.
First of all, I guess it is national data. I wonder why the data are not disaggregated, because health conditions vary so much from one part of the country to another. I'm wondering what the data are comparable to. If we really wanted to do this, I think we would have a table of the health indicators and then by region and perhaps by vulnerable population.
These are some of the questions. I'm wondering when the 2008 report is due. I understand that a committee has been struck but that they're going to report after the 2008 report. I could be wrong on that. Is there a template for doing this? Is there a province or someone we can point to and say they're doing this well, and can we emulate that?