Mr. Chair, I am not going to comment on the correctness or not of that which provinces choose to do. That is clearly within their domain.
I can however indicate that what we did was the right thing to do. We were interested in ensuring provinces had the means to provide care to those people infected pre-1986 and post-1990. I think we all remember the phrase became care not cash.
Provinces can take whatever approach they want in relation to those particular claimants. Our approach was to transfer some $300 million to the provinces and territories for health care services to help ensure that individuals infected in those two periods identified did not incur out of pocket expenses.