What we provide is the estimated and actual costs of health care for Canadians. What we hope and aim to do with that is to make it available so that it can be used for policy-making and system performance, etc. But at the end of the day, it's really important to say these are simply budget estimated numbers for the current year that come out of provincial budgets and some other data sources that we use. We create an estimate of the expenditure for the country, divide by the population, and get a number. We can also do that by age groupings, and we can do that for each province and territory. You get a range of estimated average costs for different aspects, as I mentioned, but really I think that's where our job stops and that's where we make those available for policy and system performance.
On November 20th, 2017. See this statement in context.