Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to see our colleague looking so well and so fit and applauding our system.
All of us as Canadians are immensely proud of the system we have. The question is how we are going to make it sustainable in the long term. Demographics clearly show that we have an aging population. We have been working with our partners in government to find more efficiencies in the system. Clearly we have enormous pressures ahead of us.
This debate is the beginning, along with Senator Kirby's report and Mr. Romanow's report. I would expect that we would have a variety of opportunities to look at some viable solutions so that a year from now we are not standing here continuing the debate on what we are going to do. We will have some answers that we will put into place to ensure that the Canadian health system is protected.