I've been hearing concerns about getting the money flowing. The Prime Minister campaigned on an immediate investment of $3 billion directly into palliative care. Disappointedly, 18 months later we're not seeing that promise being executed. One of the concerns I've heard is that that the Prime Minister or the health minister seem to be using palliative home care as a bargaining tool in the health accord, and again, the two most-populated provinces, Ontario and Quebec, still haven't signed on. We're seeing delay after delay. They were supposed to be using the collaborative approach, and we're seeing more of an adversarial thing.
My question is simple. What are your thoughts on the immediate $3 billion investment into palliative care that's no longer on the table, while instead, the government has announced, I believe, an investment of $5 billion over 10 years into home care?