I will be. Thank you.
I want to clarify for the record that Newfoundland and Labrador, my province, does have a dental program for children, but it's certainly nowhere near the scope that's needed. There's a huge gap there.
Dr. Allison, earlier today, we heard from someone from the Canadian Society for Disability and Oral Health. She recommended that dental care—oral care, health care—for disabled persons become a specialty as a way to break down the barriers the disabled population is encountering.
You referenced integrated care and specialized dental care in your opening remarks. I drew from that in my language that it's the places where people reside, whether it's long-term care for seniors or community health centres in particular. That then lends itself to a primary health care model, where there's an integrated multidisciplinary approach.
Why, in 2024, are we still struggling with the integration of oral health care into primary health care? How do we bring the medical schools and the dental schools forward so that we truly see this as wraparound primary essential care?