I'll take a stab at clarifying and you can tell me whether I've done a decent job. From my perspective, effective planning needs to be based on data that is as complete as possible. I believe that at the moment there are large gaps in the data that we have at the national level. What the federal government can do is create a mechanism whereby the provinces can truly understand the need and the supply. We'll never answer this question, we'll never be able to align supply and demand unless we understand both.
What the provinces do with that information is within their jurisdiction. We are not asking this entity to tell Manitoba it needs to create more x. What we want, though, is for Manitoba to be able to see not only what its provincial needs are but what the national picture looks like and whether Canada is heading for a surplus of cardiovascular surgeons. Does that mean maybe in Manitoba we should train fewer? Does it mean maybe we should try to recruit some? In other words, look at the national picture because physicians are mobile and provinces could do things to attract or disincent certain sub-specialties. What this centre is about is ensuring that all the jurisdictions can look not only at their own data relating to needs and supply, but the national picture.