I take your point. I think to be fair, and this is a slightly different perspective, it's a collaborative endeavour. The analogy that was used in an article recently about the blind men feeling the elephant and each getting a piece of it, that kind of resembles the provinces in this situation. This is a global matter. There is no mechanism that I'm aware of—and again, you're the experts in government—for the provinces to have a role on the international stage in addressing these kinds of issues.
Yes, the provinces are responsible for purchasing, but one could argue that they're doing it in isolation, in silos, and what we need is a more coordinated approach so that we don't end up with a lot of unintended consequences.
I think whatever happens, however it pans out, if you look at it from the patient's perspective, they would regard the hospital board, the provincial government, and the federal government as the fixers, the organizers. And whether you want to break it down into silos in how you do that, it doesn't really matter, so long as at the end of the day you get rid of the shortage now and make sure it doesn't happen again in the future.
I'd adopt a slightly different perspective.