Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I would also like to thank the witnesses for coming here this afternoon. I would like to make a few points with respect to your presentations.
Ms. Besner, you told us that, in your opinion, we were not using our resources well, that nurses should have more responsibilities and that we needed to change the way we do things in order to take into account the fact that patients now want to be more involved in their health care.
Ms. O'Neil, you told us that the working environment of nurses needed to be examined to create greater job satisfaction. You talked about stress and the fact that relations with superiors were sometimes difficult.
You have made all of these statements before a federal health committee. But do you not find that you are speaking to the wrong people, because the stakeholders most able to effect changes in this sector are to be found in other parliaments? The way I see it, your observations are based on rigorous, serious studies that were carried out using certain scientific research models. Have you apprised these stakeholders who, in my opinion, would be more appropriate, of these findings?