In terms of budget cuts, it's hard for me to answer because I don't have an overview. What I will say is that during the war years, so 2006 and so forth.... It's very expensive to care for acutely injured patients. We did a study on how much it costs to look after injured Canadian soldiers in the field. It was probably threefold what it costs to treat an injured Canadian civilian here. There are budgetary savings in switching from a combat role, where we have lots of casualties, to a system now where we're really dealing with the aftermath of the war. I would assume there are some budgetary savings in terms of the money we used to spend on providing care, which was very expensive for the battlefield injured.
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