Thank you for your question.
This is an area that jurisdictions have been working on for some time. I was the territorial health minister when we started dealing with how we can address some of the issues around wait times.
I can say that the latest data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the provinces and the territories shows that we have had some decrease in wait times across the country. Our government, as I stated before, will continue to provide to the provinces and the territories as they adopt innovative approaches to delivering on and addressing wait times. At the same time, we will continue to provide the provinces and territories with the 6% escalator, which they will use to allocate to areas of need.
We continue to work with the provinces and territories on a health accord. As I stated before, the health accord has three more years left. A lot of work has gone into addressing wait times, as an example, as a priority area. But in order to see the true reflection of what we were able to achieve within the 10 years, we need to let the course run itself. Within the wait-time reports across the country, we are seeing significant reductions, and we'll continue to work on that.
In addition, our government has made significant investments in prevention, such as the prevention of hip injury, as an example, and in a number of other areas, which will mitigate some of the pressures we see within the hospitals around wait times.