Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Champagne, you gave us the facts of the situation, and they were chilling. You raised important questions. How do we eliminate the delays in diagnosing patients—delays physicians have to deal with—and how do we meet people's needs? You said that standards for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up were already in place for the management of patients, and that what was really needed was a major injection of funding. You went even further, saying that one-off investments were well and good—better than a flick on the ear, as my grandfather used to say—but that the situation called for significant and recurring investments that make a real difference, basically health transfers. However, the government stubbornly refuses to deal with the matter of health transfers.
Given what you've observed, do you think the government's wait-and-see approach makes sense from a medical and economic standpoint?