Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the time that you've provided us with today and all of the answers we've received to these questions. Thank you very much for being here, and thank you for what you've done to be able to produce these supplementary estimates.
My questions today will focus on kids. They won't be specifically directed to any official.
I think Canadians are sometimes concerned, and very rightly so, perhaps, with the way the Canada health transfer is set up and the federal government's ability to be able to target certain priorities. Specifically, I've been focused on children and on children's health care, particularly preventative health care, and trying to find ways as the federal government to have a positive impact on the health of kids in Canada.
We've seen through various reports that the health of kids in many respects is heading in a negative trajectory rather than in a positive one. We would like to think that in Canada, being a wealthy country with lots of resources, we should be able to do better. It's challenging, though, because many of those priorities are difficult to find in a document like supplementary estimates. Our funding goes to provinces in such a general manner.
Can you speak a little bit—this is for anybody who would like to—about the relationship the federal government has with provinces and territories and about how we can start setting some priorities so that we can tackle some of the biggest national issues our country faces with respect to kids?