The reason for comparable indicators is so that you can, if all of the provinces report, have consistency in what they're reporting. The Auditor General has noted this in the past. One of the challenges is to become consistent in health reporting in each jurisdiction. That's been one of the benefits of having the federal government put a highlight or a spotlight on certain issues.
One of them, for example, is wait times. When we started work on wait times, you couldn't even find information about wait times. As your colleague said, how do you determine progress in something that you don't measure? Seeing that wait times was a priority in the accords, we started measuring it. You quickly find out that not just province by province are there differences, but region by region, and hospital by hospital, and specialty by specialty there are differences. This is an area in which all jurisdictions have worked very closely to try to improve the consistency of health data so we can do what you're interested in doing, and we're making great progress.