Health committee  I think you're absolutely right. We are putting a lot of money into our system. We have a lot of resources, but we're maybe not using them properly. There was a study showing that Canada is 30th out of 30 countries for the money we invest and the results we get. There is room for

Health committee  Well, I think Dr. Padmos answered most of the first question, and I was going to talk about IT and the connection, but I will speak a little bit more on your second question about long-term care or home care. I think we need to invest, in Canada, in long-term care, because for a

Health committee  I think I've said that we are trying this year to have some kind of project to integrate all those initiatives across Canada and elsewhere, to improve, first, the access, but also the quality. We have seen examples of what is going on in, let's say, the Netherlands or Denmark, wh

Health committee  They have the same problem because the problem is the lack of residency spots. It shouldn't be like that, because those people are Canadians. They didn't have a spot to train in Canada so they went elsewhere. But we should facilitate their return. They are Canadians who couldn't

Health committee  It depends if you're talking about training them again or having them back if they're fully trained.

Health committee  Yes, but if they want to specialize or train here, then that's the problem. They need to have a spot. We're lacking in residency spots, and this is why we're asking to increase those numbers. We're asking to increase the facilities and to increase the budget for training those pe

Health committee  There's some investment in that because you need people to train them, and you need availability in hospitals. Also, you need to pay the trainers. Actually, we're at capacity for who we can train in Canada. We need to increase that capacity.

Health committee  Debt is obviously an important factor, but in spite of everything, many young people nevertheless want to study medicine. Many people can be good candidates for medicine. At a dinner at our clinic, about 15 of us were talking and said that, if we had to meet today's criteria, no

Health committee  The answer is yes. I have to see where I put that. It's $5 million over five years for mentoring for people who have studied outside Canada. We think we need that money to help people. We're still talking about doctors who have studied outside Canada and who are driving taxis or

Health committee  Thank you. This year we're trying to do a blueprint of what the Canadian health system should be. We're looking at every initiative that exists here in Canada and elsewhere to try to improve it. One of them is, of course, quality improvement. We need to improve efficiency, but

Health committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I am Dr. Robert Ouellet. I'm a radiologist from Laval, Quebec, at least when my duties as president of the Canadian Medical Association allow me. It is essential to address the labour shortage in the health sector in Canada if we

Finance committee  They're similar.

Finance committee  I think we have to take every possible step to have as many physicians as possible, and here's one: we can help a physician who has been trained outside Canada, perhaps by means of a tax credit or something like that, so that he can more easily enter the medical system here. Obvi

Finance committee  When we ask parents if their children are obese, they don't usually see it that way. It's a perception problem, and you're entirely right in saying that you have to start by showing people what obesity is and what tendency their children are following. I think a significant info

Finance committee  You're asking me technical questions that they find hard to answer when they involve only fruit. It may not be easy to apply, but the principle is not to tax foods such as fruit, which she referred to, but rather foods that are harmful to health, particularly that of our teenager