Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our presenters today. It's certainly a pleasure to be here in my home province and to meet with you. I know many of you personally.
I read your presentations with much interest. I hope I can get all my questions in today.
First, to the Canadian Medical Association, as a person who has served on a district health board and a regional health authority for over 13 years, I certainly know the difficulty in implementing any kind of provincial strategy, let alone a national strategy, when it comes to the rationalization of acute care services or even a health information network.
I'd be curious to have you expand a little bit on your recommendation for a national health strategy, as well as your comments, if you have any, on the “patient first” review that was just presented to the Government of Saskatchewan this last week by Commissioner Tony Dagnone. Does it fit at all with any of the things you are flagging nationally?