Mr. Speaker, I am happy to report to the House that federal-provincial-territorial health ministers had a very good meeting a few weeks ago in Halifax. We unanimously agreed to move forward with the creation of the health council.
We are now working on the recommendations of first ministers as to the chair of that council, the 13 government representatives and the 13 non-government representatives.
We are very hopeful that first ministers will sign off on the health council, both its membership as well as its mandate, in or around mid-October.