I'm concerned because if we look at Japan, Japan has had aging demographics, coupled with a slowing economy and they have been, I believe, perpetually below economic numbers for quite a long time, which creates a lot of issues for government.
I've been asking for and I believe the parliamentary budget office has been working toward getting better data to break out, for example, our national debt, but not just by the federal government but also by provinces, and then demographics, so we can start to see where the real critical points would be.
I know that in the last Parliament some members of Parliament, and some senators from the Maritimes as well, had discussed some structural changes perhaps. Does it make sense to have multiple health authorities rather than trying to harmonize and work together?
Are these some of the strategies we're going to need to take? Again, if you look at Japan it's very difficult to boost growth to what people traditionally view as being normal, which is post-World War II numbers. What are some of the things we can do?