You're absolutely correct. There is a fundamental imbalance between how much Canada spends on health care and what it gets in return. As you mentioned, we rank sixth highest in the OECD in terms of health care spending per GDP. If we stop to adjust that for age, we actually end up ranking second highest.
I'm stressing this point because when the conversation starts to revolve around more money being pumped into the system, we have to understand that we're already one of the highest spenders. We have a federal government that is deeply in debt. We have provincial governments that are not going to be balancing their budgets for a while in many cases. We have to really understand why this money isn't translating elsewhere.
It's not just in terms of resources. We also have the longest wait times in the developed world. We rank mediocre when it comes to utilization. We have a mixed record when it comes to—