Thank you, Madam Chair.
We've had a chance to skim that report. I believe it was just released yesterday. I have a sense of the Health Council, and of course, we follow its work quite closely in terms of our audit work.
The reason we did this audit goes back to those three health accords. As I said in my opening statement, it's really about the importance of accountability. As we looked at the Healthy Canadians report, what we'd often ask ourselves was, is this a good report card? Does this give you a good sense of what's being accomplished by those many tens of billions of dollars that we've invested in health care in 2000, 2003 and 2004?
As we said in the audit, we found the report—and certainly the 2006 one, which we audited—quite deficient. We really questioned the value of putting it forward, but I would then certainly say that accomplishing this or getting a good report card on health outcomes is clearly something that's important for accountability.