Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ministers, both of you, thank you very much on behalf of Canadians and of my constituents specifically. Thank you so much for working so hard with great passion in your respective departments.
As time has shown, this chair will not extend my time, so I will focus my questions on Bill C-44 specifically for Minister Finley.
Minister, I remember working on this file with you initially, when we were talking about how we determine this, how it will be determined and how to define critical illness, etc., and I believe there was some talk about consultation within the medical profession to figure out how to define it. Was there any consultation? If there was, what were the outcomes?