As a point of information, does that eat into my time, or do I start now?
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming again, Mr. Minister. It's great to see all the great things we're working on.
In terms of some of the earlier questions, I think you used the word “conflating”. I want to elaborate a little bit on some of the amounts that Mr. O'Toole raised as being amounts that are being spent by your department. It seems to me that the interim federal health program and the Canada-Quebec accord transfers are monies that are spent by other levels of government and are just reimbursed by your department. They're not monies that are directly spent.
Can you just confirm for the committee that your answer to Mr. Anandasangaree's question in the fall stands, that your department was able to fulfill its commitments under existing allocations, and that these amounts that we're talking about under the interim federal health program and the Canada-Quebec accord are really amounts that are being transferred to other orders of government?