Thank you very much for the question.
The observatory is an opportunity, as I indicated, for researchers, governments, employers, health professionals, for us, to be able to come together and to really take stock of the innovative practices that are there that can be applied to provide new models of care.
The Canadian Nurses Association just recently published a paper on wait times, where we pulled together all of the information that showed the new models of care, whether it's nurse practitioners working in personal care homes...so long-term care situations, not just in primary care, but certainly also in primary care--to show the difference that can be made when a family practice nurse is able to work to her full scope in primary care.
Those are just short examples of innovations. The idea of the observatory is really a knowledge translation opportunity where you can bring people together who have the opportunity to spend that time thinking about these innovations, because it is the application of them into new, novel situations, whether it's in the north or whether it's within a provincial setting, that is going to make the difference. We need to provide that opportunity for health professionals, for international organizations, for researchers, for governance for us to come together.