Let me start.
I've been in the health care infomatics industry for a very long time. Ten or twelve years ago it would have been impossible to come to a table like this from different provinces and be speaking the same language on this topic.
One of the major improvements that Canada Health Infoway has introduced over time, and it has been a long battle these last 10 or 12 years, is in making sure that we are aligned. My presentation made mention of the fact that we are more aligned across the country on the topic of information and in the use of information than we've ever been. This doesn't mean that we're where we need to be. The provinces are at different stages just by virtue of the way the health care system works.
To give you an idea of access, increasingly it doesn't matter where you are. I think a lot of the examples Dr. Cafazzo used are of the leading-edge innovations that are happening. But increasingly, even for the simple things—I mentioned diagnostic imaging—if all of the radiologists are in the south and none of them are in the north...now it's possible to get the same radiology service in the north, if you're a resident of the north. You don't have to travel to the south to get these services. That's huge, for a person who chooses to live in the north or in a rural isolated community. That's one example.
The telehealth examples are very mature. We've been doing telehealth in this country in virtually every jurisdiction now for 12 years. We do a lot of it, because we have to. That's where our people are.
I think information is becoming democratized, if you will. It's not only the people in the south who have access to information; it's the folks everywhere across the province. That's what we're doing increasingly.
Your question about equity and pilots is an interesting one. I've heard that quotation as well. If you actually travel the country and see what's going on in the field of e-health in every province, and Manitoba is certainly no exception, there are a lot of really good projects under way.