Madam Chair, the study about how the transfers work is largely in the first chapter. What we said is that when there are conditions it's the responsibility of the federal government to ensure those conditions are being met and, if they're not being met, that they're taking action. This is a principle the government officials talked to us a lot about. You apply that principle to this particular case of the CHT, and I think that then becomes the basis upon which Health Canada, in its responsibilities, does the monitoring of the CHT. To the extent to which there are conditions--and they are conditions under the Canada Health Act, obviously--that then become the responsibility of Health Canada.
On February 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.