Health committee  I would not say that it should be set aside, but it does need to be put in context. It is important to understand the reality of health care services. Waiting times for specific types of care depend to a certain extent on the kind of service that is required, the waiting time and

Health committee  If you are going to start investing in electronic health records, then the federal government had better step up to the table to cut some cheques, because that is the most expensive investment you can make in a health care system. It is also probably in the long term the most e

Health committee  It's not just about health; it's about education, it's about labour, and it's about other social services. We can't just think about health in a silo any more. This has to be an interdisciplinary effort, on the one hand. Secondly, I don't see a lot of movement on that collaborat

Health committee  Well, they're often not able to come back. It depends on the country where they're studying. In some cases, their degree is not recognized by medical boards, so it's not just the government's fault. There's some kind of corporate professional accountability at play here as well.

Health committee  I think it exists so long as there's a tension in terms of the roles of the spheres of government about who in fact makes decisions in health care. I think that's one of the questions that has not been resolved. It's not been resolved who should make decisions that would perhaps

Health committee  It's simply the distribution of physicians as well. For example, at McGill, my university, the big problem is having residency in primary care filled. It's not about the specialists. They've got a lot of residents willing to do that; it's the primary care doctor that is the real

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  Merci. I am a visiting scholar at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and a political scientist at McGill University. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me to speak about health care, which is an important issue for me, since I have focused most of my re