First of all, I would comment on funding. We're spending $170 billion a year on health care in this country. CIHR's budget is $1 billion.
Now, just think of what successful company invests that percentage of their budget in R and D. That's just a question. We want the system to work. We have to invest in innovation. That's how we're going to increase the efficiency, the quality, and the accessibility.
That being said, I think it's not only for the public sector to do so. More and more we realize, particularly through participation with the provinces, because it is their constitutional responsibility to provide care, that by collaborating with the provinces we gain not only financial investments—I'd even say that it's not the most important thing—but we also get, by partnering with them, an involvement. We get a true involvement, early on into the research agenda, into why integrating research and care is absolutely critical to the future of the quality of care in this country.
The partnership is more than just money. The partnership is getting involved.