The specific questions you're asking around how many places I need to go to to put together the capital funding, or put together the combination of the capital funding, the support for teaching resources, and maybe on top of that the support for clinical resources in the clinical setting, that responsibility for those on-the-ground choices and decisions is clearly made by provincial-territorial governments, and no, there is not engagement on that level of health care delivery decision-making.
Along the lines of Dr. Bennett's intervention, although there isn't a federal role in the decision-making, there's rarely very clearly a federal role on the financial side in terms of supporting many of those decisions. At the broadest level, our primary support for medical education and for employment of the health care workforce is via the Canada health transfer, which is the major federal transfer that supports health care delivery. In that context, as you well know, the federal government committed some time ago, in 2004, to a significant increase in that transfer and to an annual escalator of 6% that is built in to the transfer. That was recently confirmed by the government. At that level the federal government is not uninvolved; it has a role in financing provincial health care delivery.
Dr. Bennett mentioned the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. There's a whole tier of support for research and development, whether it's through CFI, through dedicated research chairs, through the work of CIHR, and we could go on and on. Some of those are not within the responsibility of Health Canada, so I wouldn't be in a position to provide details, but that would be my general answer.