I'm not sure there would be that much value for the federal government itself. There could be, depending on the policy directions that the government chose to take.
I think the value would be mostly for citizens. They would have a better idea as to how their tax dollars—ultimately, it's their tax dollars, whether they're provided by the feds or the provinces—are used and how efficient their use is.
I think there would be some benefits for provinces and territories, too, in the sense that if they see that some jurisdictions can perform surgeries, for example, in a more efficient manner, they could learn from each other, taking into consideration the differences in backgrounds, environments and clientele. I think that's what the value could be. We might find that there are useful areas to spend in or invest in, in that case, that we haven't thought about.
To go back to our earlier exchange, I'm not implying that it is necessarily the federal government's job to collect that information. To go back to Mr. Ste-Marie's point, I'm not implying that the federal government necessarily has to do that job, but there are federal institutions that collect data, such as the Canadian Institute for Health Information, known as CIHI. They provide valuable information to provinces and territories and Canadians.