The Romanow commission will be very important, and in getting input across country what three things would you want him to know from Ontario?
He’s got a different time line than we do – 18 months to two years, which I think is significant. A lot of these issues are bubbling up and perking right now. We sent out a healthcare questionnaire to every household in Ontario – I think it’s 4.4 million households over the summer – and we’re still getting responses back. What will be conveyed to the federal commission will be animated by the kinds of things we get back, and we’re in the midst of tabulating right now. Our perspective has always been that this is a joint provincial/federal responsibility. The Canada Health Act has always said it’s a responsibility, 50/50, when it came to financing, and right now federal financing is 14%, so we said one thing on the table is appropriate federal financing. In the past two years we’ve increased hospital funding by more than 20% and last month I announced an annual increase of $450 million for hospitals. But with a health budget of $23.5 billion this year, that’s up $1.2 billion from last y
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