Mr. Chair, through you, ideally what we'd want to see is the creation of a health sector table much like what exists in other areas, like engineering, forestry, and mining. We've generally run into a brick wall with respect to applications for that, largely having to do with federal-provincial-territorial responsibilities.
Failing that, what we've discussed is turning Health Action Lobby into such a round table. It already exists. It already has 30 organizations, 30 professions, represented around it.
No, we don't imagine having to establish a new institute, or a new agency or a new office. This could be housed, depending upon what the primary purpose would be, either within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, if it's needs-based planning, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, if it's primarily data gathering and dissemination, or it could be under the Health Council of Canada. The problem there is you have two provinces that aren't participating: Alberta and Quebec.
We would see this as minimalist in terms of machinery issues.