Mr. Speaker, we are working on the development of the health council but as the hon. member is aware, over these number of weeks provincial colleagues, in particular my provincial colleague from the Province of Ontario, have been dealing with the outbreak of SARS. A collaborative decision was made to postpone ministerial discussions around the health council until such time as we were confident that the control and containment measures around SARS were working and we could move forward in terms of helping Toronto deal with the economic fallout from the outbreak of SARS.
In the House of Commons on May 8th, 2003. See this statement in context.