Thank you, Mr. McKay.
I have two final questions for Ms. Doig. One is from our researchers and one is from me.
We did appreciate your comments about electronic health, and if there's anything further you have on that and you would like to submit it to the committee, even though it's not necessarily related to pre-budget, we'd certainly appreciate that.
The question from our analysts is what effect do provincial licensing bodies have on the supply of health care professionals in Canada? How does this affect health care costs such as salaries? What can the federal government do to alleviate the situation?
And for my question, if you recall the health care first ministers conference years ago where the agreement was signed, Gary Mar, the health minister of Alberta at the time, warned that it was certainly a good step forward but it was not a solution. He said the biggest challenge facing health care in Canada is that a greater proportion of provincial revenues each and every year is going to pay for health care, with our demographic challenges as we move forward. This is a problem that we're going to have to face as a nation, more at the provincial level than the federal level.
What is the CME's position with respect to a greater percentage of revenue going to delivery of those health care services? How do you answer his question over the long term?
I know that's a big question for five minutes, but if you can at least try to deal with both of those....