I have attended stakeholder meetings and round tables in Nova Scotia and heard many of exactly the same concerns you're bringing forward from New Brunswick: the concern about rural communities and the difficulties in attracting physicians.
Many of the loudest concerns we've heard have been about family practices in small communities and the challenges in retaining those positions. But you represent a group of specialists. How do you see these proposals affecting the specialists, because in the larger centres what we hear, or what I have heard from my own constituents as well as from some who have attended round tables in Calgary, is that people are used to having access to top-quality specialists. Many specialists have expressed other challenges as well, both to me and to others.
Can you give us the perspective of medical specialists?