On the whole issue of knowledge infrastructure, I want to commend the government for recognizing in its February 2009 budget that infrastructure goes beyond bricks and mortar. Broadband, which we've talked about, looks like a civil engineering project, but it's obviously an economic enabler.
E-health, the electronic health record, the electronic medical record, may look like an IT project, but it's not, really. It's a fundamental infrastructure to run a modern health care system; otherwise it's going to soak up all our society's revenues and it's not going to function. But with the proper, modern, 21st century infrastructure, doctors and nurses can treat more patients, we can avoid errors, and we can improve efficiency.
It's the same thing with trying to digitize a lot of our archival content in Canada; that's fundamental infrastructure. ICT and how we run government, that's fundamental infrastructure. And the knowledge infrastructure investments in the budget in science and technology, in university research capabilities, those are the kinds of thing we need to have. Knowledge infrastructure and 21st century infrastructure applies and it really is useful all across our economy.