It's actually somewhere in between. If I wasn't clear when I said it, the most essential thing is to get the information, not the agreement.
The first effort of the agency has been to make sure that we have the relationship with the provinces and territories and others--all our colleagues--so that a phone call will solve it. Rather than that, you can have the regulations in place, you can have a memorandum of understanding, and you can have timelines, and then they wait for 48 hours to send it to you, as opposed to picking up the phone.
We have standard case definitions. You're mixing up a number of things and putting them all under the statement. We do have standard case definitions. We all report on the same things. The issue is that getting the agreements in place takes time. If you think of any FPT agreement, they do take time. We are taking that very seriously. We want them in place. We agree with the Auditor General. We've said so. I'm just talking about the reality.
In the U.S. you have a Surgeon General—I'm the equivalent of the Surgeon General and the head of CDC--and the Surgeon General has no power over the states to order them to do anything.
What you want to ensure is that you have the system working, and we will get the agreements in place to reinforce that. Greater specificity is absolutely essential. I totally agree with that. I'm just speaking to the reality that I want to make sure that I have the information, period. We'll work on the agreements, but I'm not going to spend time working on agreements before I get the information.