I can start.
I'm not sure I have the answer for you, but given that I speak on behalf of the system that does include the acute care centres as well, the messaging I get from my members is prevention. That's why we focus on it. We don't want to get to the point where we can't in fact respond to the need, because you're absolutely right, the issues of staffing and surge capacity are frightening. We talked about those, as you know, in the health committee. Several of you have been around this committee for some time and you were, prior to H1N1, doing a series of consultations on HHR, health human resources. We're already in a crisis situation, and increasingly so with the U.S. potentially moving to a different system that will require more health providers for more of their people. Where are those health providers going to come from? For many of them, they will come to Canada. So already in crisis, we are going to be very challenged to deal with that. That is why, from my perspective, we focus so much on the preventive side and why it is so important.
The consistent messages are getting out there. We were slow with it, but they have improved dramatically, I would say, in the last few weeks to a month or so.
One of the points I raised in my presentation was looking at the labour mobility and licensing issues, which we have looked at since SARS. AIT is in place. We understand that all the provinces have signed on, but is it truly implementable? I don't know the science of this--perhaps Dr. Kumar does--but if the disease presents in different places at different times, can we move health providers around? Is that one of the solutions?