It's nice to see you again, Mr. Green, and thank you for your service. It's nice to see a leader from Hamilton back in the Government of Canada. I would say that is a great question and great collaboration.
At the clinical level, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Health System are both very actively involved at the provincial table and the federal table. As we know, with health being a provincial delivery responsibility, it has been more focused there. In looking at the coordination of care, Hamilton has been leading the way in creating an integrated care system, from primary care right through to hospice and palliative care. I think much of what this disease will show us and has shown us is the lack of concentration on the latter parts for frail citizens and under-housed citizens, an area that Hamilton has thrived in championing.
I think the other piece of this is collaboration and research. Just as an example, the laboratories at University Health Network and the Hamilton regional laboratory medicine program, which operates through both of the hospitals under Hamilton's supervision, are already collaborating. They are coming up with very creative ideas, such as the idea that perhaps through our laboratory system we should be coming up with our own swabs, our own medium, and a number of other technologies and testing analyses that would allow us not to be dependent on the international marketplace where, frankly, Canada is a small player and we don't always get to the trough first. Those who buy the most product often are those who get the quickest response. Unfortunately, the response has not been as rapid as we'd like in a number of key diagnostic areas.