Thank you very much for that comment. It makes a lot of sense to me.
I wanted to talk to Dr. Lear as well.
You have probably heard of a doctor down there in California, or you may not have. I think his name is Eric Topol. He's doing a lot of things with cardiac. He's doing a lot with self-care. He's doing a lot with apps and cellphones.
We've had some witnesses here in front of us who are talking about the wonderful things that could be done with these apps, and the work that you're doing for remote communities, things along those lines.
We see these apps that could be used for diabetes, where people will put a sensor on their skin and they can read their blood sugar levels. We see where you can do an EKG that used to be a 12 lead when I was in school, and now it's just two fingers and you've got an EKG. You can do these things cheaply with a $199 app in remote communities, so the technology is there.
I wanted to ask you the same question. I know you've received federal funding, CIHR grants, things like that, but what do you find? Now that you've got the model, are you having trouble with the B.C. government? Are they prepared to start supporting you and financing these in your initiatives?
It seems that as the federal government we can do the role on the research side of things, but to actually get this implemented we have to have the provinces to buy in and it seems that there's a real stopgap there. What do you see being the obstacles?