Let me just take it into another direction we really haven't touched on.
I agree with and really appreciate all your comments around looking at the whole delivery model, thinking outside the box, multidisciplinary approaches, holistic medicine practices, blah, blah, blah.
The fact of the matter is that we've got a real serious crisis right now in Canada. Canadians are desperately trying to get some answers from us and they're looking to Parliament. We have a health human resources strategy that was just renewed, but based on the analysis of the last five years, that didn't produce much. So what advice can we give to the federal government and the Minister of Health today to put some teeth behind that supposed national health human resources strategy? The strategy has money attached to it in the sense that money was parcelled off from the transfer to be designated for dealing with health human resources. What do we do at least in the short term on that front?
Secondly, do you see a federal role for dealing in the short term with some of the shortages? For example, in the past it was the federal government that built colleges for doctors. These days, everybody sort of washes their hands and says it's not our doing, it's up to the provinces. If we don't get some coordination at the federal level, the whole thing's going to come crashing down before we get a chance to put in place all this stuff we've been talking about for thirty years. So I guess I'd like to hear some short-term recommendations as well in terms of dealing with some of these problems.