Thank you for the question.
Coming from Manitoba, where most of the care is delivered in Winnipeg, we see the problem with delivering care effectively to remote northern and indigenous communities. I have patients who come down from Nunavut. You're right; it is difficult. I think there has to be ongoing discussion and consultation about how to better deliver health care in our indigenous communities, especially in the communities that now have the ability to run their own health care system.
With the demographic top-up to the Canada health transfer, I see the potential for improving care to all Canadians—not just our seniors—particularly in some of the remote, northern, or rural communities. For example, you could use innovation and technology so that you could monitor patients in their home communities and not have them come down to Winnipeg for a very quick follow-up visit. If we had some of those strategies in place, I think we could deliver better care to our under-serviced people across the country.