I'll be frank. When I became health minister and I had initial conversations, because of the points that you've just raised and the enormous progress made in a year, I really felt that the system might be ready. In Charlottetown, what I heard every health minister say was that they weren't ready. They needed more time. That caused me to have a pause at that moment in time. It led me to a lot of other conversations where I'm reflecting on some of the things that happened here. I would say that the joint committee in its testimony and work was also very important in coming to that determination.
It was certainly a part of the equation, the position of the provinces and territories.