Thank you, Madam Chair.
Certainly in the case of paramedics, while being the third largest health care provider in Canada in terms of our demographic, we're not on the health human resource planning horizon. We're not currently being studied by the federal government in terms of the army of resource that's available to you. However, our demographic is significantly younger than that of the physician group and the nursing group by virtue of the advent, if you will, of paramedics over the past 40 years across Canada, and we're now quite a bit younger and have greater capacity in terms of our ability to shift both culturally and geographically given our prevalence in rural and remote communities across Canada.
In terms of the patient demographic, if you will, we are certainly experiencing significant challenges. To recap one of my points earlier, 60% of our responses are to patients who are over the age of 60, and when you look at those over the age of 80, that's 27%—almost a third of our response is for people over the age of 80. We recognized earlier, from Mr. Béland, that may not be the largest group of people in the population, but they do use our services at an exponential rate from earlier age groups, and as a result, we're able to respond to that with a younger workforce.