For sure. Ms. Gladu, as my late father used to say, wisdom comes so seldom that we shouldn't reject it because it comes late. I agree.
The health accord is live before us, so I'm trying to find out what your policy would be, what recommendations you would make to this government about how much they should spend on palliative care and home care, given that we had 10 years of government that really didn't allocate anything.
As a matter of fact, from 2001 to 2006 the federal government funded the Secretariat on Palliative and End-of-Life Care, giving them $1 million to $1.5 million a year. One of the first acts of the Harper government in 2006 was to cut that. That basically took about $10 million to $12 million out of a federal government entity that was charged with creating an end-of-life strategy. Would you like to see that money restored?