Evidence of meeting #17 for Health in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was jurisdiction.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
If you want to get the data down to the community level, what do you have to pay for and what is the cost?
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Director, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
Let me just say that first of all, the sample size, which is quite large at 66,000, doesn't necessarily allow us to really produce estimates at a community level. We've designed our survey so that we can produce it at a health region level. Because of our confidentiality rules at Statistics Canada, it's quite difficult for us to actually be able to release information from the Canadian community health survey at the community level. If we look at the confidentiality rules and we feel we can release the data, it's quite likely that the estimates are not reliable at that level of geography anyway.
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Director, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
If we are required to do a custom tabulation, which is something that's not available on our website, then we would have to charge for that information.
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Liberal
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Director, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
We follow traditional government cost recovery policies.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Okay. Thank you.
I'm going to ask about IMGs. As was discussed, we've heard there are agreements with other countries to provide visas for international medical graduates to complete postgraduate training and then return to their country to practise afterwards.
How many medical residents with visas are currently training in Canada, and what are the fees that they pay? You mentioned that we're tracking them.
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
What was the second question? I missed the last three words.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
You mentioned that this is being watched very carefully, so I'm wondering if you can table with the committee how many visa medical students there are per province, in what fields, and what the fee schedule is, please.
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
We'd have to get back to you. That will take some time.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Roughly, do we know how many visa residents are currently training in Canada?
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Federal Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
Yes, we do. The statistics that we have from 2009 indicate there are 755 across the country.
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Federal Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
I don't have that broken down by jurisdiction. That we can provide to you.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Thank you. That would be very helpful.
How many IMGs get spots in Canada?
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Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of Health
I think it's in the range of just under 400 Canadian IMGs who....
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
I'm sorry, but we're counting the numbers incorrectly. One is an entry-level position. How many entry-level positions there are versus how many are totally in training are very different questions. Most training is for multiple years, so you're compounding it--
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
Okay. That will change our visa number dramatically.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
That's what I'd like to know. How many entry spots are there in both categories, please?
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
It's good to get clarity.
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Federal Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
I think we'd better verify that and get back to you.
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
It's 91 in the first year for visa trainees.
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Liberal
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Provincial Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources
I think it was 392.