Our report is based on a complete review of all the most recent literature across the country. In terms of the statistics that we cite in ours, because palliative care isn't measured or defined in the same way across the country, you have to gauge access through other indicators. One of the best indicators is how many people are dying in hospital instead of at home. Almost one in two cancer patients are dying in hospital, which is an indication that they aren't getting palliative care early enough and not getting the chance to choose where they receive care.
We don't have an estimate that we've generated ourselves of how many Canadians have access to palliative care. It would take considerable resources to generate such an estimate, because first you would need to define it for the whole country and then you would have to go out and collect data. That's not being done in the same way in different parts of this country right now, by anybody.