Clearly, right now it's essential that mechanisms be put in place to facilitate the creation of a true continuum of care. The fact is, each province has a health care network in place, and it's often the primary network providing primary, secondary and tertiary services. This network provides some services in its facilities that are funded by the provincial government. There is no real connection between services, when patients are discharged, for example, to facilitate the continuum of care. Therefore, no link is necessarily made with the community. The workers who release patients are not necessarily aware of the services the federal government provides. Sometimes people will leave the facility without the proper dressings, and it can take a while for authorizations to come through.
Therefore, I think we need some reflection on that, so that each of the stakeholders can play their role. The federal and provincial governments have a role to play, but the communities also have a central role to play. We need to make sure that we optimize the involvement of each of the stakeholders to be able to create a true continuum of care, so that patients don't run into barriers when they have to navigate a system to receive care. That system really needs to break down all the barriers that patients can face when multiple jurisdictions are involved.