Thank you very much.
As the minister indicated, the panel is now out in full force in its consultation process. There are several different avenues under way. As the minister mentioned, there is an open, online consultation available to any Canadian who wants to offer ideas to the panel.
The panel has been meeting various health care stakeholders and associations on an individual basis. They also have been and are planning to meet at various regional levels with a broad section of stakeholders. For example, I believe just a couple of weeks ago they had their first such meeting in Halifax, well attended by 25 to 30 key health care stakeholders in that province, including a good representation by provincial officials. They're intending to have similar sessions over the next month or so in various other parts of the country. I think they have sessions set up for Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and a couple of other cities.
Dr. Naylor and his panel have been doing work with provincial governments seeking input from them as well. They will be doing the same with territorial governments. Finally, they are looking at and working to see if there are any international examples or models of innovation that could possibly be considered or applied here in Canada.
One of the things that I certainly am aware of and the panel is seeing is that there's a great deal of innovation going on across the country in almost every single jurisdiction. There are many effective pilots that have been done or are under way. I think one of the biggest challenges is that it seems so difficult to take those effective pilots and scale them up on a broad basis. I think those are some of the issues that are coming out in the discussions that they're having.