I'm a bit hesitant to go down this path, but I will. I think in the past we've talked about how four million Canadians don't have a family physician. I'd be curious to hear from you and from CARP as well. You talked about evidence. In reallocation of resources, what role does private delivery, for example, play within the medicare system? The evidence would show that Canada is unique in this area. European countries all mix the two. The countries you listed as having higher life expectancies than Canada does--particularly Japan--mix the two. Are there not solutions there as well to encourage...?
I agree with you completely. We need to ask provinces to do more. At the same time, they need to have the resources to do that, and we almost need to treat the provinces as ten laboratories of experimentation that can go out and find best solutions, as opposed to having terms dictated to them by the federal government.