That's a great set of questions, Mrs. Vignola, and I thank you for asking them.
With respect the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec, or RAMQ, dental care should have been included with health insurance in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada for the past 50 years or so. Despite hopes and efforts, that never came to be back then. Dental care is therefore not covered, except for very specific groups in Quebec and elsewhere in the country.
In Quebec, dental is covered only for children under the age of 10, and for certain types of care in particular. That excludes most of the preventive care for children. As we know, that care is so important to children's health and development.
There is very little coverage for other Quebecers, which means that there are major dental care needs in Quebec, even more so than elsewhere in Canada. We've seen this in recent months, because a third of the Canadian plan members are Quebecers.