Thank you.
Dr. Busing stole my Calgary example, which is perhaps the most famous one where physiotherapy is concerned. The reduction of wait times for musculoskeletal surgery--hip and knee especially--is very dramatic and the example is so clearly understood by a layperson such as myself that it begs the question of why we can't do this across the country.
The answer is that we can and in fact we are. The question is, are we doing it fast enough to meet the needs of this ever-increasing health care cost? Bill 179 in Ontario is a good example of a provincial government getting ahead of the pilot project type of approach and opening up or removing, if you will, barriers to the implementation of exactly those kinds of projects and systems. I think there's a lot of potential there.
Again I would come back to what the federal government can do, which is simply to make sure, if you are funding any kind of health care expenditure, that the folks you're giving the money to are using those types of inter-collaborative models. The health care expenditures in first nations, in the military, and, again, with the public health care plan: those are billions of dollars. Obviously we're talking hundreds of billions when you do health care systems provincially, but it's still a significant amount of money, and you can take action on that today.