That's a question I wasn't expecting from this particular audience, but thank you for it.
We've had only a brief chance to review the recommendations that Commissioner Dagnone has made. Having said that, I think there are strong synergies in many of the recommendations with the general direction that is being proposed by the Canadian Medical Association in the health care transformation project. We're really talking the same language. I noticed in reading Mr. Dagnone's report that he has fairly carefully stayed at a high level. That too is the approach that we've been taking at the CMA. The actualization of what will happen obviously may look different in different jurisdictions.
I'm also struck by the synergies I heard this morning in listening to my colleagues from SaskTel talking about the IT issues and the broadband issues. I'm sure members of the committee realize just how critical that kind of service is for the medical profession. Talking, for example, about telehealth, about the ability of physicians in small rural and remote communities to have direct clinical access to specialists in central tertiary centres allows physicians.... I've seen this in operation in northwestern Ontario, for example, where you can actually examine a patient online and talk to the specialist so that the patient is prevented from having to travel perhaps 300 to 500 miles to obtain that service. So the need for a unified approach to these kinds of issues is very strong.