Thank you for your question.
I am suggesting support for research and education provided by university partners on a subject such as Lean transformation in health care. As I understand it, that is not solely a provincial responsibility.
Yesterday, I was having breakfast with the dean of the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business. The reason I met with him was to ask him to set up the partnership, to encourage people to come and benefit from learning opportunities, and to send us research candidates, all for the purpose of broadening what we know about this field. We have questions about how we're doing things today, what is working and what isn't. People in the business and health worlds need to come together so we can learn together.
The ultimate goal is to incorporate this more business-oriented learning into the curriculum taught to every health professional. The business educators at Montreal's HEC and the Asper School of Business want to develop curriculum on health-related business practices for their candidates. And I think the federal government could contribute to that.