I think an example of effort would be the members around our board table who run health systems in Nunavut, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. There are a number of solutions. They aren't all involving more health human resources on the scene because it's not necessarily available, but certainly recruitment in tension areas and appropriate workplace environments and incentives and so on....
The other issue is that tele-health and new technology are used a lot, so that we can share information without necessarily being there in person and we can actually take care of people without being there in person. Across this country there are magnificent moves forward in tele-health. I wouldn't want to lose the notion also of centres of excellence, of making sure that people who need to be taken are taken by airplane, by helicopter, and what not to the centre of excellence that can better meet their needs. You can't have a full set of services in every single remote community, but you can meet needs through a combination of tele-health, through a combination of nursing stations. Here we're talking about using people according to their skills and competencies and not worrying too much about scope or practice and competitive professional disciplines and so on.
There are a number of solutions and people are working on them, but I agree it's a specific and extreme challenge, particularly when we're talking about managing the chronic conditions of people on an ongoing basis. I really do think new technology is one of the solutions, together with health care, which means that health professionals--this is the other thing--need to be trained in those technologies in the future.