It certainly has an impact, and especially an impact on patients who are either vulnerable or older. It also has an impact on our ability to introduce new technologies within our hospital sector. I'm always reminded that one of the hospitals which I visited was receiving a gamma knife, but the infrastructure for receiving the gamma knife did not allow that to be placed within that hospital. So it has an all-around impact on the organization.
We had estimated a few years back the number of projects and we had gone to many of our institutions, which are members of HealthCareCAN, and asked them what projects they would put in place to allow them to really upgrade their institution. I believe that number is in the billions of dollars. I don't have the exact number.
This leads me to my last point on this. At this moment, hospitals are not allowed to access any infrastructure funds, and again it's a simple regulation that does not allow hospitals and schools or universities to apply for the competition within the government's infrastructure fund envelope. I believe that's unfair, and I believe that hospitals—