Thank you.
I have a question for Mr. Guptill.
Slide 11, on lack of capacity—I don't lay this at anybody's door, but I think a lot of the problems are from some of the provincial boundaries we have—the portability of health care.
Very quickly, because I have a question and I don't want to run out of time here, I'm personally going to the issue.
My daughter is graduating in three weeks as a psychiatric nurse. A huge class in Brandon, Manitoba, is graduating; none of them is allowed to come east and work. They can only work in the west. In Ontario you have to become an RN and then you specialize. It takes two to three years longer. These people are actually being bid on right now to travel all across the west, because for one thing they can't get any doctors. So psychiatric nurses are providing services that doctors would normally do because there are no doctors either. You have a huge challenge in the capacity.
I would very much like Mr. Perron to deal with the rural part of Canada. My riding is one of the largest in Canada, the Kenora riding. Even in your district offices, if you look, there are 11 in southern Ontario. Then you go 1,000 miles from North Bay to Winnipeg; there's one office in between and that's in Thunder Bay.
I want to know, when somebody has to visit a clinic, has to go to one of these contract beds, service is provided wherever they go, but what kinds of supports are in place for the families now? You mentioned families in the charter. Do we have the support? Say a spouse has to take him in or a child has to take their father or their mother in? What kind of support is there when the family tries to look after this person? They may have to travel hundreds of miles. Do we have some kind of support network there for them?