I totally agree with you. You and I are totally on the same page. There would be nothing better than to get rid of the entire backlog. I don't question that for one minute.
Part of what we're trying to do here is work through how we address the wait times and how we get the backlogs down. One of the ways the ministry has determined this is not in the manner that you may like, in terms of spending a lot more money and hiring a lot of additional people on a full-time basis, but in a way that at least shows we're trying to work at it. If it's an unacceptable manner of doing it, I respect the fact that you may agree with that, but if there is not a want to have a temporary program that we can actually implement from time to time across the country, I suppose you're well within your right to make that.... But I hope you'll understand that as much as we possibly can and wherever we can, within the fiscal constraints that we face as a government--and certainly the provinces face the same issue--we have to take those things into account.
If we are going to continue with programs like this--and the ministry is going to be up next, so we'll get a chance to ask them--I hope we have your full support to continue this program when and wherever possible we can implement it. We did it in 2006 in Sydney. We did it in 2009. Perhaps in the next couple of years we may be able to do it again. Do we have your support for that program?