This is a situation that I think arose in my office before I became a federal member of Parliament. It is a situation in which I believe a whole community ended up looking at the net benefit to having this person in their community. I know we've talked a little bit about the net benefit here, and I understand that it's a bit difficult to calculate, but this whole community—just about every community organization—wrote letters of support for this individual. The situation was very much accepted.
One reason they did that was that the community I come from is a mainly rural area with a very serious shortage of nurses, and the mother of this child was a very qualified nurse. The need for her in the hospital was greater than the cost of the rest of the care that this person was going to have to have. Eventually we were successful in keeping this family there. They have three other children, who are quite normal, in the school. There's all that to be taken into consideration.
I'm just wondering if there's any movement to look at the idea that maybe there's not just a hard and fast net dollar cost but a social net benefit to having a person of this type in a community as well.