Yesterday you didn't mention the meetings. You told me to phone Global Affairs, which of course I have done a lot of. They have been helpful, but I was hoping to have a little bit more timely information.
I will move on to another question. We're looking at the estimates. We're being asked to sign off on over $30 billion, I think, and I'm struggling to figure out.... You mentioned numerous times the idea of $11 billion for palliative and home care. I was looking to see how much is being utilized in each of the different provinces, which is, as it turns out, very difficult to figure out. I managed to find out, through the Library of Parliament, that $60 million is being used by B.C. for palliative care. Then I looked at a CIHI study, which said we had about 16,000 palliative care patients. If I take that number and divide it by what's being given, it's about $3,700 per palliative care patient. We know that it's about $1,200 for one palliative care patient in hospital per day, which gives them about three days in hospital, or, if you go to somewhere like the Delta Hospice, you could get 10 days, because they are about $350 a night.
Do we feel that's enough? In general, we know that we need palliative care to ensure that people are not having to request MAID in order to get out of suffering, but if we don't have enough palliative care, how can we do that?