We can extrapolate health care spending projections, based especially on the aging population and the data we have on spending for the past 10 or even 20 years. That will not necessarily be very different or considerably lower than what we have seen to date.
Excluding the three territories, we see that the lowest annual spending growth, by province, in the past 10 years, has been 6.1% and that the highest has been 10%. The parliamentary budget officer is projecting average annual growth of 5.5% for the country as a whole, with variations, for the following 10 years, again based on the figures that we have.