Thank you.
I have a question and a comment. It has to do in part with some of the information you've brought to committee, Mr. MacDonald, and also some of what my colleague Mr. Jean has raised.
If you look at the provinces--and Mr. Jean referenced a 7% increase, I believe, in Alberta, and I think a 1% decrease, for instance, in New Brunswick, in round figures--what I find stark about that is that New Brunswick has an aging population. I think Alberta's population is probably getting younger as more young people are moving to Alberta, yet the cost of health care is increasing significantly. If Alberta can afford to do that, I think that's great, but it raises the issue of demographics that I mentioned earlier. Nova Scotia is an example of a province that's teetering on decline in population and certainly has an aging population. We have higher health care costs, and you would agree that the health care costs as people get older tend to increase.