Thank you, Minister.
Mr. Chair, I guess that answer is not forthcoming, unfortunately. That being said, maybe I'll try something different.
Wait times are an entirely different topic and an incredibly important topic here in Canada. I've had an opportunity to meet with some of our orthopaedic colleagues. There is no health care shortage of orthopaedic surgeons, I'm told, so they're able to perform these surgeries.
Only $2 billion of the $6 billion available for wait time changes has now been deployed. We do know very clearly that folks who are awaiting total joint arthroplasties are often not able to work, which is creating difficulties for their families, and those on the wait lists need medications, etc. It would appear that would be an easy deployment of more of those funds. Can you please tell me what the government's opportunity is going to be there for deploying the funds specifically for total joint arthroplasties?