Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We want to change this to remove some of the language in the original clause, which had the Minister of Health requiring a report on an area of progress that wasn't under federal jurisdiction and may have caused some confusion of issues under provincial and federal jurisdiction. We're amending it to read:
Within five years after the day on which the report referred to in section 3 is tabled in Parliament, the Minister of Health must prepare a report on the state of palliative care in Canada, and cause the report to be laid before each House of Parliament