When I talk to Canadians about the federal government transferring money to the provinces, one of the things they're very interested in is making sure that we know what that money is going to do. There is a tremendous amount of interest in the concept that if there will be new investments, how will we know where that money is going to be spent and how is it going to inform the system.
I think the option was potentially there that we could have written the $3 billion into the budget and said that we would figure out later how the money is going to be spent. I don't think that would have been responsible of us. I'm very pleased that we have not yet written it into the budget. There will be another budget next year and between now and when our budget is produced next year, that's when I need to have those important conversations with the health ministers in the provinces and territories. You can be sure I'll be holding the finance minister to helping me out with that.