In your work and ours, one of the most important things in getting something done is having a chance. The Canada research chairs program, which is a federal program, has shown us how different areas of research are organized in a pan-Canadian way in universities across Canada.
We are asking for funding, in each of the medical schools, for Canada chairs in both medical education and rural health research. These chairs would not be located in, say, St. John's or Toronto, but rather in, say, Goose Bay. They would serve as primary connectors between the communities and the medical schools, ensuring that the focus remains on delivering medical education and doing grassroots research. This could be funded in the same way as the federal government funds the Canada research chairs—in a national program. The rural health question is pan-Canadian, and we need some pan-Canadian answers. That's why we picked these two—because they could be funded federally.