Thank you very much for that.
This question is for Mr. Shepitka and anybody else who wants to answer. There was mention earlier of cost savings. I come from the riding of Kootenay—Columbia, which is in the southeast corner of British Columbia, and two of our hospitals in two of our remote areas have been closed and replaced with primary health care models. Although I had some reservations—I was the mayor of one of the towns when it happened—about this happening, what I did recognize over time was that people started to take better care of themselves because there wasn't the ability to just walk in to a hospital.
From that perspective, do you see that in northern Ontario? Could anyone on the panel comment on primary health care vis-à-vis a regular hospital setting?