We talked about being a country of pilot projects. I'd like to add, from the first nations health system, that this sparked the nation to change. Without the pilot projects in the last 10 years, we wouldn't have had the clinicians and the health managers actually seeing the benefits of e-health. In the first nations system, when we began we started to see the benefits of telehealth and electronic health records. So I think it's a natural evolution that has happened.
In the jurisdictional discussions between the provinces, the federal government, and first nations, with three partners having to work together...e-health has actually brought the three jurisdictions together to have a complex discussion around policy. This is the area on which we've spent the last four or five years working with the Assembly of First Nations, around aligning our policy discussion and our strategic vision.
Each of the provinces has their own e-health strategy. With the federal government, through FNIHB, we have an e-health strategy. We're working with AFN. We now have three strategies that are aligning around the vision of a blueprint through Canada Health Infoway, provincial strategies, and federal ones.
Most important are the first nations and listening to what the communities want to do, so we have spent our time going through needs assessment processes, really trying to listen and learn what the communities want, and what are their priorities.
I think 10 years was required, but I think we're at a very good point to go forward.