Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are two points. One is what we're asking for is that we do no more and no less for people than we do for technologies. Since 1989 we've had a Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment. All we're asking is to start to look at what we can do. Is it possible? Is it feasible? Of course it is. We've done it for technologies and collaborations. Now we only evaluate technologies once and then leave it to the provinces to figure out whether to buy them or not.
As for the European experience, the European Economic Community has eased mobility throughout Europe in terms of licensing and mobility of physicians and others and has created offices, like the one we're suggesting, in The Hague and elsewhere to try to coordinate.