Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the NDP member for his question.
This is a very good question, but the member knows that this is a funding issue and not a leadership issue. We know that there is a provincial jurisdiction in that matter and that we cannot move forward without a consensus of all provincial and federal health ministers.
In Quebec, my home province, we are ahead of all other Canadian provinces in that we have local community service centres or CLSCs as well as home care.
We have thus taken a shift to ambulatory care, which is very important and quite appreciated by the people. But, before applying this to all provinces, there must be consensus and true dialogue between the provincial ministers and the federal minister.