It's a difficult question because of the fact that in Canada, health care is a provincial responsibility, so transforming the primary health care system is particularly difficult for that reason, and the role of the federal government then is somewhat difficult. As does my colleague here, I think the health accord itself could be a useful strategy. Tying primary care reform to the health transfers may be a strategy. As far as coming together with the provinces and the federal and territorial governments to come to some unity on this goes, I'm not really sure I necessarily have the answer because of the way our federal-provincial system is structured. That is going to be a significant barrier. It will require collaboration and lots of discussion bringing together various interest groups, like my colleague's group, the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association, the Public Health Association, and a variety of groups to have some discussions about how we might move this forward.
On February 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.