Thank you for your explanations.
Currently, there is a great deal of pressure on the health-care system and on service delivery, there is much talk about efficiency and effectiveness in delivering services to the population. Money is hard to come by, and certain governments tend to want to privatize services.
The annual cost of the department's long-term care program is $340 million. What is the cost of administering these services?
Have you done an analysis of the way you deliver these services, to determine whether you are being as efficient, effective and economic as possible, not in terms of customer service but rather in administrative and management terms?
I am wondering whether the program would be more efficient if the budget was transferred to the provinces and to Quebec, for example, to departments that are already set up to deliver these services.