Well, I know from my career working for the federal government and 12 years at the health department that there are jurisdictional issues when it comes to health. That being said, I truly believe that the federal government, being the place where a lot of the funding, the money, originates, can have a role in influencing what happens at provincial levels.
We have Rowan's Law in Ontario now. Over the next couple of years, all of the action items are going to be implemented, things like the gaps in education for the medical areas. That was one of the recommendations, ensuring that health care practitioners have updated education, and in the curricula in universities for medical schools. This would be particularly in Ontario, but I do believe it needs to be expanded across Canada, and more education in this area needs to be provided, particularly in the ER, family practitioners and clinicians areas, those front-line people who see the kids and the people coming in the doors first.
I believe we have a template in Rowan's Law that can be replicated across Canada in each province. We've had the catastrophic event. We've had the inquest. We've had the recommendations. We've had one year of experts sitting around the table talking about how best to do this. We've had the action items presented. We have a government that is in the process of implementing all of those action items.
It doesn't necessarily have to be one-size-fits-all, as your previous witnesses said, but I think the template is there. A lot of the heavy lifting has been done. Replication of it, I believe, should be relatively straightforward, given of course the unique circumstances of each jurisdiction. That is understandable, but I think the blueprint is there, much like the blueprint is there for many of the multidisciplinary clinics that do need to be replicated across the system to improve access.
The template is there in Rowan's Law. I'm working now to try to encourage other provinces and jurisdictions to adopt something similar, be it by legislation, policy or regulation. It really doesn't matter to me, as long as the spirit of it and the force of it are there. I think the federal government can have a role in encouraging that type of adoption across the country.