I think we definitely find ourselves in a challenge now as to how we try to leverage some of these ideas, which are pan-Canadian issues, and to get some momentum on solving issues that impact everyone, as opposed to continuing to be completely siloed with the current 13, arguably 14, health care systems that we have.
We absolutely appreciate that the provinces need to deliver on health care, and there's that important role, and more local knowledge is important, but we also struggle with being able to take and learn from lessons of what's working and scaling it in other jurisdictions, and what we end up with is no real transformative change happening.
We absolutely support the idea of increasing the Canada health transfer so that the provinces would have more predictability in terms of the sustainability of funding that's available to them. That said, we also see that several of these problems we've outlined are pan-Canadian problems and may be more efficiently handled by having solutions that every province and territory can collaborate on and move forward together on, rather than re-creating solutions in each province and territory and not learning or scaling things that do work. We also recognize that this has been our pattern of funding now for many years, and we have not seen significant health care transformation.
I think our real concern is how we move past the status quo. We've been talking about integrated team-based care for 20 years, but we haven't seen any really high-level commitment towards making that the system of care, so how do we get past the status quo? How do we get the provinces, territories and federal government co-operating towards the action that's needed to transform the system? How do we move forward out of this crisis mode? I think the worry is that more of the same is not going to get us there.