Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the guests today. I want to take a bit of a different approach, primarily with the chamber of commerce and Deloitte as two of our guests.
We had the head of the Canadian Medical Association as a witness a couple of weeks ago, and she said that Canada's health care system is in crisis and in fact is “on life support”. That is a quote. We heard today from Ms. Black, who said that primarily long-term care has been operating largely the same for decades.
We hear a lot about the need for innovation and the need for technology and all of these sorts of things, but what we don't hear very much about is whether our entire system is structured properly. If it's not based on a solid structure.... In other words, we will hear a lot from public sector unions and friends of socialized medicine when something goes wrong at a privately run long-term care facility, but my experience with government is that government is not very good at innovation and not very good at making changes.
Here is my question to the two of you to start with. Have you done much work around—and you mention a couple of studies—whether the structure of our health care economy, which is what we're calling it now, is correct, or do we need to look at ways we can provide better care without simply doing it the same way we've always done it?