Mr. Chair, to reassure the member and all the committee, as a senior official I would echo the views of the minister. This is an absolutely abhorrent practice. If we were aware of these sorts of instances, I can assure you we would be passing that information to the appropriate authorities immediately.
Because it is about the delivery of health care on the ground, it is an intergovernmental issue on which we will have to work with our colleagues at the provincial and territorial level to try to make progress on it. We're committed to supporting the government any way we can to make progress.
We share the views about the problematic practice being absolutely unacceptable. We'll do what we can to be supportive in dealing with it.