That's an excellent point. Indeed, most of our recommendations were focusing on the provinces and territories, in part because they were wondering what their scope or role ought to be.
But you're right, and one of our key messages is embedded in there, but it's probably worth unpacking a bit. What we were seeking was clarity, as we've noted, in the Criminal Code carve-out related to health professionals and related to eligibility criteria so that those would apply in a pan-Canadian way.
We've also underscored an important role federally for there to be federal oversight. We heard earlier from the expert panel. We are actually envisioning two levels of oversight. The federal level of oversight primarily would be more like a commission that would provide overall policy recommendations. There would be a gathering of data. We'd gather data from across the country and then be able to report back to the public on the state of end of life in Canada, particularly as related to physician-assisted death. Then, within the provinces, there would be a level of overview as well.
One of the worries, of course, is that we do live in a system that has a federal government with a narrow scope of jurisdiction related to health care, and we have provinces and territories where most of the jurisdictional work is. That's the system we've inherited. That's what we're working in. One of the key messages we took away from our work with the provinces and territories is that they were the ones underscoring that they did not want to see a patchwork. Many of them were saying that they need to have clarity on the Criminal Code issues and then they will follow from there. They were really looking for direction from the clarification on the Criminal Code by the federal government in order to be able to proceed.