Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of our witnesses today. I wanted to pick up where Ms. Moore was in talking about cost savings. She had directed that at the Canadian Chiropractic Association.
We're all concerned about sustainability of health care services and the accelerating costs. You mentioned a third of absentee-from-work situations involve MSK, musculoskeletal conditions, and half of medical visits, and you mentioned a global strategy for managing the costs of MSK.
I'm going to flip back the calendar a bit to...I think it was 1993. I believe it was the Ontario government that commissioned a report from a health care economist right here in Ottawa, Pran Manga, who studied chiropractic efficiency in managing low back pain alone, I believe, at that time. It was called the Manga report. I think his conclusion was that in Ontario alone they'd save hundreds of millions of dollars by employing an MSK strategy that would have chiropractors be primary contact practitioners that would engage first, just on low back pain.
I wondered if you could comment on the outcomes of that report. Was it a missed opportunity?