Thanks for the question, Mr. Williamson.
Sport Matters marshalled some of that data on the spending on health prevention and promotion. I hear where you're coming from, and this has been the problem traditionally: there's always an acute and immediate demand to provide further services to existing programs. There are, let's face it, vested interests around the provision of certain types of health care--very powerful, very vocal, and very articulate groups--but what I think we're trying to say is that if you spend more on prevention, you may not immediately see the results in a year or so, but you may see them within five or six years. We believe that you can significantly reduce the consumption of health services.
I think the important point here is that if we make Canadians more responsible individually for health choices, dietary choices, and physical activity choices, that will lessen the demand on the system, so for some of the points you're making about requirements for more emergency physicians or more oncology wards, that kind of stuff will be lessened. I see what you're saying, which is that the political imperative in the short term is to put more dollars into beds, but with respect, I think that in the long run that will just take us down a spiralling road where there's a never-ending demand for those things.